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Clement Markert

Clement Markert (1917–1999) was an American developmental biologist and geneticist credited with discovering isozymes, the multiple molecular forms of a single enzyme; he later chaired biology at Yale.

Cliff Tabin

Cliff Tabin, also known as Clifford J. Tabin, is an American developmental geneticist who has chaired Harvard Medical School's genetics department since 2007 and identified Sonic hedgehog as the limb bud's patterning signal.

Clifford A. Hudis

Clifford A. Hudis is an American medical oncologist who led breast cancer care at Memorial Sloan Kettering and has been chief executive of ASCO since 2016.

Clifford B. Saper

Clifford B. Saper is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, the James Jackson Putnam Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for defining the brain circuits that regulate sleep, body temperature, and circadian timing.

Clifford Grobstein

Clifford Grobstein (1916–1998) was an American developmental biologist who showed how embryonic tissues direct one another's growth and later shaped bioethics debates on fetal research.

Clifford J. Rosen

Clifford J. Rosen, also published as Clifford Rosen, is an American endocrinologist at MaineHealth Institute for Research in Portland, Maine, and a Tufts professor known for osteoporosis trials.

Clifford J. Tabin

Clifford J. Tabin is an American developmental geneticist, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for work on Sonic hedgehog, left-right asymmetry, and Darwin's finches.

Clifford J. Woolf

Clifford J. Woolf is a South African-born neuroscientist who discovered central sensitization, the amplification of pain signaling in the central nervous system, and is a Harvard Medical School professor of neurology.

Clifford Ladd Prosser

Clifford Ladd Prosser (1907–2002) was an American comparative physiologist at the University of Illinois, often called the father of modern comparative physiology and author of Comparative Animal Physiology.

Clifford P. Brangwynne

Clifford P. Brangwynne is a Princeton University biophysicist who showed that membrane-less cell structures form by liquid-liquid phase separation, and won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Clifford P. Stanners

Clifford Paul Stanners is a Canadian biochemist and McGill University professor whose research on carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) showed it functions as an intercellular adhesion molecule.

Clifford R. Jack

Clifford R. Jack is a neuroradiologist and Alzheimer's researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for the 2009 dynamic biomarkers model and the 2016 A/T/N classification.

Clifton A. Poodry

Clifton A. Poodry is an American developmental geneticist and Tonawanda Seneca member who led minority research training at NIGMS from 1994 and later became an HHMI Senior Fellow.

Clifton Bogardus

Clifton Bogardus is an American diabetes and obesity researcher, Scientist Emeritus at NIH's Phoenix Epidemiology branch, known for Pima Indian studies showing insulin resistance predicts type 2 diabetes.

Clifton E. Barry

Clifton E. Barry III, full name Clifton Earl Barry, is an American tuberculosis researcher who chiefs NIAID's Tuberculosis Research Section and helped develop the drug pretomanid.

Clifton Watson Callaway

Clifton Watson Callaway is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on brain injury after cardiac arrest.

Clint Chapple

Clint Chapple is a Canadian-born American plant biochemist at Purdue University known for his research on lignin biosynthesis and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Clinton Chapple

Clinton Chapple, also known as Clint Chapple, is an American plant biochemist at Purdue University whose research on lignin biosynthesis led to his 2022 election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Clinton E. Ballou

Clinton E. Ballou (1923–2021) was an American biochemist at Berkeley known for his studies of yeast cell wall mannans, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Clinton Hart Merriam

Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942) was an American zoologist and ethnographer who founded the Bureau of Biological Survey, pioneered the life-zone concept, and described about 660 new mammals.

Clinton N. Woolsey

Clinton N. Woolsey (1904–1993) was an American neurophysiologist who pioneered functional mapping of the cerebral cortex, showing where touch, hearing, and vision are represented on the brain's surface.

Cliona M. Rooney

Cliona M. Rooney is an immunologist and virologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston known for developing EBV-specific T-cell therapy, now standard of care in Europe, for EBV-associated lymphomas.

Clive Ballard

Clive Ballard is a British old age psychiatrist and dementia researcher, Professor of Age Related Diseases at the University of Exeter since 2016 after holding a chair at King's College London.

Clive Dickson

Clive Dickson is a molecular biologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London known for mapping the int-2 gene activated by mouse mammary tumor virus.

Clive Kearon

Clive Kearon was an Irish-born Canadian thrombosis specialist and professor of medicine at McMaster University whose New England Journal trials changed anticoagulation practice; he died in 2020.

Clive Noble

Clive Noble (1938–2022) was a South African orthopedic surgeon, the country's first doctor to specialize in sports injuries, who co-founded SASMA, edited its journal, and improved boxing glove safety.

Clive Svendsen

Clive N. Svendsen is a British-born stem cell researcher and Executive Director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, studying ALS and Parkinson's disease.

Clive Wood

Clive R. Wood is a British-trained immunologist credited with discovering the PD-1: PD-L1/PD-L2 cancer immunotherapy pathway, who led discovery research at Boehringer Ingelheim before joining OrbiMed in 2025.

Clodagh O'Shea

Clodagh O'Shea is an Irish molecular biologist, a professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for research on oncolytic adenoviruses engineered to kill cancer cells.

Clyde A. Hutchison

Clyde A. Hutchison was an American biochemist who helped sequence the first complete DNA genome and led the design of the first minimal synthetic bacterial cell.