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Claudia Mauri

Claudia Mauri is an immunologist and Professor of Immunology at University College London, known for work on regulatory B cells, which curb inflammation via interleukin-10 and are deficient in autoimmune diseases.

Claudia R. Valeggia

Claudia R. Valeggia is an Argentine-born biological anthropologist and Yale professor who studies human reproductive ecology, including fertility, puberty, and menopause, through fieldwork with Toba/Qom and Wichí communities in Argentina.

Claudia Sommer

Claudia Sommer, born 1958, is a German neurologist and pain researcher, senior professor at Universitätsklinikum Würzburg and former president of the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Claudio A.P. Joazeiro

Claudio A.P. Joazeiro is a molecular biologist and professor at Scripps Research in Florida, known for discovering the Listerin ligase that clears faulty proteins from stalled ribosomes.

Claudio Anasetti

Claudio Anasetti is a transplant physician and hematology researcher who chairs the Blood & Marrow Transplant department at Moffitt Cancer Center, known for trials defining unrelated-donor stem-cell graft selection.

Claudio Basilico

Claudio Basilico is an Italian-born molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at New York University, known for research on cell proliferation, tumor viruses, and FGF signaling.

Claudio Fiocchi

Claudio Fiocchi is a Brazilian-trained physician and researcher at the Cleveland Clinic known for showing that angiogenesis contributes to inflammatory bowel disease and for his 2011 New England Journal review of ulcerative colitis.

Claudio Hetz

Claudio Andrés Hetz Flores, born 1976 in Chile, is a Chilean neuroscientist and full professor at the University of Chile who studies ER stress in neurodegenerative disease.

Claudio Luchinat

Claudio Luchinat, born in Florence in 1952, is an Italian chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Florence known for NMR spectroscopy of paramagnetic metalloproteins and metabolomics.

Claudio Ponticelli

Claudio Ponticelli (1936–2026) was an Italian nephrologist in Milan whose randomized trials of methylprednisolone and chlorambucil in membranous nephropathy, published from 1984, produced the Ponticelli regimen.

Claudio Ronco

Claudio Ronco is an Italian nephrologist, Director of Fondazione IRRIV in Vicenza, known for continuous renal replacement therapy, cardiorenal syndromes, and CARPEDIEM, the first dialysis machine built for newborns.

Claudio Soto

Claudio Soto is a Chilean-American biochemist who invented PMCA, the first technique to replicate infectious prions in a test tube, and directs the Mitchell Center at UTHealth Houston.

Claudio Stern

Claudio D. Stern, born 1954, is a Uruguayan-born developmental biologist at University College London known for research on gastrulation and neural induction in the chick embryo.

Claudio W. Pikielny

Claudio W. Pikielny, also published as Claudio Pikielny, is a molecular biologist known for yeast mRNA splicing work at Brandeis and fruit fly pheromone research at Dartmouth.

Claudiu T. Supuran

Claudiu T. Supuran, born 1962, is a Romanian-born Italian medicinal chemist and full professor at the University of Florence known for carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and SLC-0111.

Claudius Regaud

Claudius Regaud (1870–1940) was a French physician and biologist who founded French radiotherapy, co-founded the Fondation Curie with Marie Curie, and established the dose fractionation principle underlying modern radiation oncology.

Claus Bachert

Claus Bachert (born 1957) is a German ENT physician and allergologist known for work on chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, Staphylococcus aureus superantigens, and biologic drug treatment.

Claus Christiansen (Danish physician)

Claus Christiansen, born in Aalborg, Denmark in 1942, is a Danish physician and osteoporosis researcher whose 1987 trial showed calcium does not prevent postmenopausal bone loss as effectively as estrogen.

Claus Nerlov

Claus Nerlov is a stem cell biologist and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at the University of Oxford who studies how blood cells form and how leukemia arises.

Claus Niederau

Claus Niederau is a German gastroenterologist and hepatologist, chief physician in Oberhausen, known for hemochromatosis and hepatitis B research, including a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine study.

Claus Scheidereit

Claus Scheidereit is a German molecular biologist who led a signal transduction lab at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, known for work on NF-κB in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Claus Vogelmeier

Claus Vogelmeier (born 1956) is a German pulmonologist at Marburg who led the POET-COPD trial, helped lead FLAME, and has chaired the GOLD COPD strategy since 2014.

Clay Armstrong

Clay Armstrong is an American physiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who deduced the structure and gating of potassium channels from squid giant axons.

Clay F. Semenkovich

Clay F. Semenkovich is an American endocrinologist who is Chief of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studying lipid metabolism.

Clemens A. Schmitt

Clemens A. Schmitt, born 1967 in Frankfurt, is a German hematologist, oncologist, and cancer researcher who has led the University Clinic for Hematology and Internal Oncology at Kepler University Hospital in Linz since 2019.

Clemens Plaschka

Clemens Plaschka is an Austrian molecular structural biologist and Senior Group Leader at the IMP in Vienna, known for Nature papers on the spliceosome and mRNA export.

Clemens Richert

Clemens Richert, born 1965 in Münster, is a German chemist who chairs Biological Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, known for enzyme-free DNA replication and ribosome-free, RNA-directed translation.

Clemens von Pirquet

Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929) was an Austrian pediatrician who coined the term "allergy" in 1906, devised the first tuberculin skin test, and held the chair of pediatrics at the University of Vienna.

Clement A. Finch

Clement A. Finch, known as Clem Finch, was an American hematologist at the University of Washington whose research defined how the body acquires, uses, and stores iron.

Clement J. McDonald

Clement J. McDonald was an American physician and medical informatics researcher, known for creating Regenstrief Medical Record, LOINC terminology, and the Indiana Network for Patient Care.