Life and health

C. H. Waddington

C. H. Waddington (1905-1975), British developmental biologist and geneticist at Edinburgh; coined epigenetics, canalization, genetic assimilation, and the epigenetic landscape; major figure in developmental biology, 1940s-1960s.

C. James Ingles

C. James Ingles (Charles James Ingles) is a molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for work on RNA polymerase II and transcriptional activation.

C. Jessica E. Metcalf

C. Jessica E. Metcalf (born 1978) is a disease ecologist and demographer, professor at Princeton University known for work on measles, rubella, and serological surveys.

C. McCollister Evarts

C. McCollister Evarts is an American orthopedic surgeon credited with introducing total hip replacement surgery to the United States and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1997.

C. Michael Gibson

C. Michael Gibson is an American interventional cardiologist, Harvard Medical School professor, and CEO of the Baim Institute, known for the TIMI Frame Count and trials like TWILIGHT.

C. Michael Stein

C. Michael Stein is a South African-born clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for NEJM studies on azithromycin and cardiovascular death and the genetics of warfarin response.

C. Neil Hunter

C. Neil Hunter is a British biochemist and Fellow of the Royal Society who holds the Krebs Chair at Sheffield, known for cryo-EM structures of bacterial light-harvesting complexes.

C. Noel Bairey Merz

C. Noel Bairey Merz, full name Cathleen Noel Bairey-Merz, is an American cardiologist who directs the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.

C. Phillip Miller

C. Phillip Miller was an American bacteriologist at the University of Chicago who studied antibiotic resistance and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1956.

C. Randy Gallistel

Charles R. (Randy) Gallistel, born 1941, is an American cognitive scientist and Rutgers professor emeritus known for treating learning and memory as information storage and computation.

C. Richard Boland

C. Richard Boland is an American gastroenterologist and cancer researcher who named Lynch syndrome in 1984, studied microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer, and became Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCSD in 2023.

C. Robert Horsburgh

C. Robert Horsburgh is an infectious disease epidemiologist and tuberculosis clinician who is a professor at Boston University and chairs the international RESIST-TB network for drug-resistant tuberculosis trials.

C. Robin Buell

C. Robin Buell is an American plant genomicist at the University of Georgia known for helping sequence the first plant genome, Arabidopsis, and the first crop genome, rice.

C. Ronald Kahn

C. Ronald Kahn, known as Ronald Kahn, is an American physician and diabetes researcher who studies how insulin acts on cells and how insulin resistance leads to type 2 diabetes.

C. Stacy French

C. Stacy French, born Charles Stacy French, was an American plant physiologist and biophysicist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology at Stanford from 1947 to 1973.

C. Thomas Caskey

C. Thomas Caskey (1938–2022) was an American physician-scientist in human genetics who identified the genetic basis of 25 inherited diseases at Baylor College of Medicine.

C. van Ypersele de Strihou

Charles van Ypersele de Strihou (1933–2021) was a Belgian nephrologist who founded and led the nephrology department of the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc of the University of Louvain.

Oct 10, 2026

C. Walton Lillehei

C. Walton Lillehei, born Clarence Walton Lillehei, was an American cardiac surgeon at the University of Minnesota who performed the world's first open-heart operation using cross-circulation in 1954.

C. Warren Olanow

C. Warren Olanow (1941–2024) was a neurologist who spent his career on Parkinson's disease, chairing neurology at Mount Sinai from 1994 and leading the 2009 ADAGIO rasagiline trial.

C. Wayne Bardin

C. Wayne Bardin (1934–2019) was an American endocrinologist and reproductive physiologist who led development of the Norplant and Jadelle implants, Copper-T IUDs, and mifepristone trials at the Population Council.

C.A. Stein

C.A. Stein, also known as Cy A. Stein, is a physician-scientist and chemist known for his work on antisense oligonucleotide drugs at the National Cancer Institute and City of Hope.

C.E.M. Griffiths

C.E.M. Griffiths, Christopher E. M. Griffiths, is a British dermatologist who established psoriasis as an immune-mediated disease and directs the Global Psoriasis Atlas from the University of Manchester.

C.M.T. Spahn

Christian M. T. Spahn is a German biochemist and structural biologist at Charité in Berlin who uses cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structures of eukaryotic ribosomes.

Oct 21, 2026

C/St

C/St is an inbred laboratory mouse strain of Leonell C. Strong's line, derived from a DBA male crossed with a Bagg albino female; it is the common ancestor of the C3H and CBA strains and carries the H-2q haplotype.

C1-inhibitor

C1-inhibitor (C1-INH, C1 esterase inhibitor, SERPING1 product) is a 478-amino-acid serpin regulating complement, kallikrein, and coagulation proteases; its deficiency causes hereditary angioedema and it is given as replacement therapy.

C10orf53

C10orf53 (chromosome 10 open reading frame 53, HGNC:27421) is a human protein-coding gene at 10q11.23 encoding the uncharacterized 93-aa UPF0728 protein Q8N6V4; testis-enriched, spermatid expression, GWAS links to glaucoma and prostate carcinoma.

C19MC miRNA cluster

C19MC (chromosome 19 miRNA cluster) is a primate-specific, paternally imprinted cluster of 46 miRNA genes at 19q13.41, expressed almost exclusively in the placenta and undifferentiated stem cells, regulating trophoblast innate immunity and serving as a biomarker of pregnancy complications.