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Carisoprodol
Carisoprodol (Soma) is a centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant approved in 1959, metabolized by CYP2C19 to meprobamate, acting on GABAA receptors; US Schedule IV since 2012, withdrawn in Europe, internationally scheduled in 2025.
Carl Akeley
Carl Ethan Akeley (1864–1926), American taxidermist called the father of modern taxidermy, creator of the first habitat diorama and the Akeley mounting method, inventor of the cement gun and Akeley camera, and founder-advocate of Africa's first national park for mountain gorillas.
Carl Barton Huffaker
Carl Barton Huffaker was an American entomologist and population ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the 1958 mite-on-orange predator-prey experiments and leadership in biological control.
Carl Blobel
Carl Blobel is a cell biologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York known for research on ADAM metalloproteases and their regulators, iRhom1 and iRhom2.
Carl Bruck
Carl Bruck (1879–1944) was a German dermatologist who with August von Wassermann and Albert Neisser developed the first serological blood test for syphilis, published in 1906.
Carl C. Seltzer
Carl C. Seltzer (1908–2003) was an American physical anthropologist and epidemiologist at Harvard, known for re-evaluating life-insurance height-weight tables and for studies of smoking and obesity.
Carl C.H. Petersen
Carl C.H. Petersen is a Swiss-based neuroscientist who studies how the mammalian cortex processes touch, as Full Professor at EPFL and head of its Laboratory of Sensory Processing.
Carl Cori
Carl Ferdinand Cori was an Austrian-born American biochemist who shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his wife Gerty for discovering how the body converts glycogen.
Carl Correns
Carl Correns (1864–1933) was a German botanist and geneticist who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, first reported gene linkage, and first demonstrated cytoplasmic inheritance in plants.
Carl E. Bauer
Carl Eugene Bauer is an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University Bloomington known for identifying the AppA blue-light photoreceptor and mapping the RegB-RegA and CrtJ systems that control photosynthesis genes.
Carl E. Taylor
Carl E. Taylor (1916–2010) was an American physician and epidemiologist, founder of international health as a discipline and first director of Johns Hopkins' Department of International Health.
Carl Eisdorfer
Carl Eisdorfer is an American psychiatrist and gerontologist who led the University of Miami's psychiatry department and Center on Aging, and co-founded the Alzheimer's Association.
Carl Erik Mogensen
Carl Erik Mogensen (C. E. Mogensen), born in 1938, is a Danish nephrologist and professor emeritus at Aarhus University known for establishing microalbuminuria as a predictor of diabetic kidney disease.
Carl F. Ware
Carl F. Ware, also known as Carl Ware, is an American immunologist who defined TNF receptor signaling pathways, discovering LIGHT and the HVEM–BTLA checkpoint, with therapeutics entering clinical trials.
Carl Figdor
Carl Figdor is a Dutch tumor immunologist at Radboud University Medical Center, known for dendritic cell cancer therapy and discovering the DC-SIGN receptor in 2000.
Carl Flügge
Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Flügge (1847–1923) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist whose cough-droplet experiments established droplet infection, especially for tuberculosis, and who co-founded the journal Zeitschrift für Hygiene.
Carl Folke
Carl Folke, born 1955 in Stockholm, is a Swedish sustainability scientist known for social-ecological systems and resilience thinking, and winner of the 2022 Heineken Prize.
Carl Frederic Schmidt
Carl Frederic Schmidt (1893–1988) was an American pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania who, with Seymour Kety, developed the nitrous oxide technique for measuring human brain blood flow.
Carl Friderichsen
Carl Friderichsen was a Danish pediatrician and chief physician of the children's department at Sundby Hospital in Copenhagen from 1931 to 1956, known for Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome.
Carl Frieden
Carl Frieden is an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, known for enzyme kinetics, hysteretic enzymes, and protein folding.
Carl G. Hartman
Carl G. Hartman, also known as Carl Gottfried Hartman, was an American reproductive biologist whose ovulation research became the scientific basis of the rhythm method.
Carl Gegenbaur
Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903) was a German comparative anatomist and zoologist, professor at Jena and then Heidelberg, who turned homology into a tool for reconstructing evolutionary history.
Carl Gottfried Hartman
Carl Gottfried Hartman (1879–1968) was an American reproductive biologist who received the first PhD from the University of Texas in 1915 and timed ovulation in rhesus monkeys, founding the rhythm method's scientific basis.
Carl H. Eigenmann
Carl H. Eigenmann (1863–1927) was a German-born American ichthyologist who spent his career at Indiana University, studying South American fishes, blind cave vertebrates, and the surfperch Cymatogaster.
Carl Hart
Carl Hart, born 1966 in Miami, Florida, is an American neuroscientist and Columbia psychology professor whose human-laboratory drug research argues most drug harm flows from illegality.
Carl Hirschie Johnson
Carl Hirschie Johnson, also published as Carl H. Johnson, is an American chronobiologist and professor at Vanderbilt University whose research established cyanobacteria as a model for circadian biology.
Carl J. Pepine
Carl J. Pepine is an American cardiologist at the University of Florida known for coronary disease research and for leading the INVEST blood pressure trial.
Carl John Wiggers
Carl John Wiggers was an American cardiovascular physiologist, called the dean of cardiovascular physiologists, who created the Wiggers diagram and won the 1955 Lasker Award.
Carl Kingsford
Carl Kingsford is a computer scientist and Herbert A. Simon Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who develops algorithms for DNA and RNA sequencing data, including Salmon.
Carl Kupfer
Carl Kupfer (1928–2011) was an American ophthalmologist and the first director of the National Eye Institute, serving from 1970 to 2000 as its budget grew from $24 million to over $450 million.