Life and health scientists

Clare M. Waterman

Clare M. Waterman, also published as Clare M. Waterman-Storer, is an American cell biologist and NIH Distinguished Investigator who invented fluorescence speckle microscopy for tracking proteins in living cells.

Clare Turnbull

Clare Turnbull is a British clinical geneticist and Professor of Translational Cancer Genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for identifying most inherited testicular cancer risk variants.

Clarence A. Ryan

Clarence A. Ryan, known as Bud Ryan, was an American plant biochemist at Washington State University who discovered systemin, the first peptide hormone known in plants.

Clarence Cook Little

Clarence Cook Little (1888–1971) was an American mammalian geneticist who founded The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and developed the DBA and C57BL inbred mouse strains.

Clarence Crafoord

Clarence Crafoord (1899–1984) was a Swedish thoracic surgeon who performed the first successful repair of coarctation of the aorta and introduced heparin into clinical surgery.

Clarence Erwin McClung

Clarence Erwin McClung (1870–1946) was an American cytologist and zoologist who proposed the first chromosomal hypothesis of sex determination, identifying the X chromosome as the carrier of a hereditary trait.

Clarence J. Gibbs

Clarence J. Gibbs (1924–2001) was an American virologist at the National Institutes of Health who transmitted kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease to chimpanzees, helping define the subacute spongiform encephalopathies.

Clark D. West

Clark D. West (1918–2014) was an American pediatric nephrologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who pioneered complement research in kidney disease and led its nephrology division for 36 years.

Claud Stanley Rupert

Claud Stanley Rupert (1919–2017) was an American photobiologist who showed in 1956 that visible light repairs UV-damaged DNA, the first demonstration of a DNA repair enzyme, photolyase.

Claude A. Piantadosi

Claude A. Piantadosi is an American physician-scientist at Duke University who studies acute lung injury and mitochondrial biology, and directs Duke's Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology.

Claude D. Arnaud

Claude D. Arnaud (1929–2016) was an American endocrinologist known for his research on parathyroid hormone and as a founder of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.

Claude Desplan

Claude Desplan is a French-born developmental biologist and Silver Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at New York University, known for defining nearly 200 neuron types in the fly visual system.

Claude E. Welch

Claude E. Welch (1906–1996) was an American abdominal surgeon who spent his career at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, writing the New England Journal of Medicine's authoritative abdominal surgery reviews for nearly 30 years.

Claude Fortier

Claude Fortier (1921–1986) was a Canadian endocrinologist at Université Laval, considered a world expert on the HPA stress axis and the pioneer of neuroendocrinology in Quebec.

Claude Gibert

Claude Gibert is a French intensive care physician and professor at University Paris Diderot who directed the medical ICU at Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard in Paris, known for diagnosing ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Claude Griscelli

Claude Griscelli (1936–2026) was a French pediatrician and immunologist who described Griscelli syndrome in 1978, built pediatric immunology at Hôpital Necker in Paris, led Inserm, and founded the Institut Imagine.

Claude Hélène

Claude Hélène, also known as Claude Helene, was a French biophysicist and biochemist who directed the Centre de biophysique moléculaire in Orléans and pioneered antisense and antigene oligonucleotide strategies.

Claude J. Migeon

Claude J. Migeon (1923–2018) was a French-born American pediatric endocrinologist who directed pediatric endocrinology at Johns Hopkins from 1961 to 1994 and researched congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Claude Matuchansky

Claude Matuchansky is a French gastroenterologist and professor émérite at Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot, known for research on alpha-heavy-chain disease, and who led hepatology-gastroenterology at Hôpital Saint-Lazare in Paris.

Claude Perreault

Claude Perreault is a Canadian hematologist and immunogeneticist who heads an immunobiology laboratory at the Université de Montréal's Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, developing cancer vaccines.

Claude W. dePamphilis

Claude W. dePamphilis is an American plant evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University, known for leading the Floral Genome Project and the Amborella Genome Project.

Claude–Agnès Reynaud

Claude–Agnès Reynaud, born 1953, is a French immunologist and CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris who studies antibody repertoire generation and B cell memory.

Claudia Bagni

Claudia Bagni is an Italian neuroscientist at the University of Lausanne who studies how messenger RNA is handled at synapses in Fragile X syndrome and autism.

Claudia F. Lucchinetti

Claudia F. Lucchinetti is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist whose research defined the pathological heterogeneity of multiple sclerosis lesions and aquaporin-4 autoimmunity in neuromyelitis optica.

Claudia García‐Moreno

Claudia García-Moreno is a Mexican physician and public-health researcher at the World Health Organization in Geneva, known for leading WHO's work on gender, women's health, and violence against women.

Claudia Höbartner

Claudia Höbartner is an Austrian chemical biologist who holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, working on ribozymes, deoxyribozymes, and fluorescent RNA aptamers.

Claudia Kemper

Claudia Kemper is an immunologist known for defining the complosome, the intracellular complement system, and for showing that CD46 is a checkpoint in human T cell immunity.

Claudia Köhler

Claudia Köhler is a German plant molecular biologist known for work on genomic imprinting in Arabidopsis seeds, and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology since 2021.

Claudia Langenberg

Claudia Langenberg is a German-British physician-scientist who studies the genetic regulation of human metabolism, and since 2022 has directed the Precision Healthcare University Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London.