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Chu‐Xia Deng

Chuxia Deng (邓初夏) is a biochemist and geneticist known for work on BRCA1, sirtuins, and cancer drug resistance, formerly a senior investigator at the NIH.

Chuan He

Chuan He is a Chinese-born American chemical biologist at the University of Chicago whose 2011 discovery of the first RNA demethylase, FTO, established the field of epitranscriptomics.

Chuanyue Wu

Chuanyue Wu is a cell biologist at the University of Pittsburgh whose research on focal adhesions and integrin signaling established kindlin-2 as a key regulator of integrin activation.

Chun‐Xiao Song

Chun-Xiao Song is a Chinese chemical epigeneticist at the University of Oxford who develops sequencing methods for DNA and RNA modifications and applies them to early cancer detection.

Chunfu Xu

Chunfu Xu is a Chinese computational protein-design scientist at NIBS Beijing since 2022, known for designed protein cages and transmembrane pores from David Baker's lab.

Chung Owyang

Chung Owyang is an American gastroenterologist at the University of Michigan Medical School, known for identifying the CCK-releasing peptide and awarded the AGA's 2022 William Beaumont Prize.

Chunliang Li

Chunliang Li is a Chinese-born cancer and genome-biology researcher who has been an Associate Member in Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 2023.

Chyi‐Song Hsieh

Chyi‐Song Hsieh is a physician-scientist and immunologist who holds the Wolff Distinguished Professorship at Washington University in St. Louis, studying immune tolerance to self, food, and gut bacteria.

Chyke A. Doubeni

Chyke A. Doubeni is an American family physician and clinical epidemiologist known for colorectal cancer screening research, a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award, and leadership as Ohio State's Chief Health Equity Officer.

Ciarán P. Kelly

Ciarán P. Kelly, a Trinity College Dublin graduate, is a Harvard Medical School professor and gastroenterologist in Boston known for work on C. difficile infection and celiac disease.

Cigall Kadoch

Cigall Kadoch is an American chromatin biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for her research on SWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodeling complexes in cancer.

Cindy D. Davis

Cindy D. Davis is an American nutrition scientist who serves as National Program Leader for Human Nutrition at the USDA Agricultural Research Service and received the 2000 PECASE award.

Cindy L. Grines

Cindy L. Grines is an American interventional cardiologist who led the PAMI trials showing angioplasty beats clot-dissolving drugs for heart attacks, and is chief scientific officer at Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute in Atlanta.

Ciro de Quadros

Ciro de Quadros (1940–2014) was a Brazilian physician and epidemiologist who led the campaigns that made the Americas the first region to eliminate polio and measles.

Cisca Wijmenga

Cisca Wijmenga is a Dutch human geneticist and Lodewijk Sandkuijl Professor at the University of Groningen, known for celiac disease genetics and gut microbiome research, who served as Rector Magnificus from 2019 to 2023.

Cladd E. Stevens

Cladd E. Stevens is an epidemiologist who spent over 30 years at the New York Blood Center, working on hepatitis B vaccine trials and leading its Cord Blood Program.

Claes B. Wollheim

Claes B. Wollheim is a Swedish-born physician-scientist and professor emeritus of experimental diabetology at the University of Geneva, known for research on insulin secretion and mitochondrial beta-cell failure in type 2 diabetes.

Claire Bombardier

Claire Bombardier is a Canadian rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto known for the 2000 VIGOR trial comparing rofecoxib with naproxen.

Claire E. Walczak

Claire E. Walczak is an American cell biologist at Indiana University Bloomington who studies how dividing cells distribute chromosomes, best known for identifying the kinesin XKCM1 in 1996.

Claire Infante‐Rivard

Claire Infante-Rivard is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist, now an Emeritus Professor at McGill University in Montreal, known for studies of childhood leukemia, asthma, and silicosis among Québec workers.

Claire Kremen

Claire Kremen is an American conservation biologist and ecologist at the University of British Columbia, known for research on crop pollination by wild bees and landscape-scale sustainable agriculture.

Claire M. Fraser

Claire M. Fraser is an American genomic scientist who coauthored the first complete genome sequence of Haemophilus influenzae and previously led The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).

Claire V. Broome

Claire V. Broome is an American physician and epidemiologist, CDC deputy director from 1994 to 1999 and acting director in 1998, known for the Broome method of estimating pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness.

Claire Wyart

Claire Wyart is a French and American biophysicist and neuroscientist who leads the SIBBIL team at the Paris Brain Institute, known for discovering spinal neurons that sense body bending.

Claire-Anne Siegrist

Claire-Anne Siegrist, born 1958, is a Swiss pediatrician known for infant vaccine immunology and for leading WHO's phase 1 trials of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine.

Clara Camaschella

Clara Camaschella is an Italian physician-scientist in hematology known for work on iron metabolism, from hereditary hemochromatosis genetics to discovering the genetic basis of iron-refractory iron deficiency anemia.

Clara D. Bloomfield

Clara D. Bloomfield (1942–2020), born Clara Derber, was an American oncologist who led Ohio State's cancer center and made chromosome changes the basis for treating adult acute leukemia.

Clara K Chow

Clara K Chow is an Australian cardiologist and clinical trialist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, best known for leading the quadpill hypertension trials.

Clara Menéndez

Clara Menéndez is a Spanish physician-scientist at ISGlobal, Barcelona, known for research on malaria in pregnancy and for helping found the Manhiça Health Research Centre in Mozambique.

Clare M. Lloyd

Clare M. Lloyd is a British respiratory immunologist at Imperial College London who studies childhood asthma and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2019.