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Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, born 1968 in Munich, is a German developmental biologist and biophysicist, a professor at ISTA in Austria known for work on the mechanics of gastrulation.

Carl‐Henrik Heldin

Carl-Henrik Heldin, also known as C H Heldin, is a Swedish molecular cell biologist at Uppsala University known for research on PDGF and TGF-β signaling.

Carla AbouZahr

Carla AbouZahr is a global health statistician who spent over 20 years at the World Health Organization and led The Lancet's work on counting births and deaths.

Carla Denyer

Carla Denyer (born 1985) is the Green Party MP for Bristol Central since July 2024 and former co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales (2021–2025); she proposed Bristol's pioneering 2018 climate emergency declaration.

Carla F. Kim

Carla F. Kim is an American stem cell biologist who studies lung stem cells and lung cancer, leading a laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital and teaching at Harvard Medical School.

Carla J. Shatz

Carla J. Shatz is an American developmental neurobiologist at Stanford University who discovered that spontaneous retinal waves wire the brain before birth, winning the 2016 Kavli Prize.

Carla Mattos

Carla Mattos is a structural biologist at Northeastern University known for her work on Ras GTPases, discovering the Ras allosteric switch, and winning the 2003 PECASE award.

Carla Nester

Carla Nester is an American pediatric and adult nephrologist at the University of Iowa specializing in complement-mediated kidney disease, and senior author of the 2025 VALIANT trial of pegcetacoplan in C3 glomerulopathy.

Carles Cantó

Carles Cantó is a Spanish biochemist and senior researcher at EPFL in Switzerland, known for first-authoring a 2009 Nature paper linking AMPK, SIRT1, and NAD+ metabolism.

Carlie LaLone

Carlie LaLone is an American research bioinformaticist at the EPA office in Duluth, Minnesota, who developed SeqAPASS, a tool predicting chemical susceptibility across species, earning a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Carlina

Carlina (carline thistles) is a genus of about 30 spiny Asteraceae herbs in tribe Cardueae, subtribe Carlininae, named by Linnaeus in 1753, native from Macaronesia and North Africa to Siberia and Iran, with yellow discoid heads and papery radiating bracts.

Carlina acaulis

Carlina acaulis L., stemless carline thistle or silver thistle, a stemless Asteraceae perennial of European mountains; root essential oil (91.5–99% carlina oxide) studied as antimicrobial and botanical insecticide.

Carlito B. Lebrilla

Carlito B. Lebrilla is an American analytical chemist and glycobiologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for mass spectrometry methods applied to cancer biomarkers and human milk sugars.

Carlo Catassi

Carlo Catassi is an Italian pediatric gastroenterologist and Full Professor of Pediatrics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, known for research on celiac disease epidemiology.

Carlo Ferrari

Carlo Ferrari is an Italian physician-scientist in the immunopathogenesis of viral hepatitis, full professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Parma and director of its hospital's hepatology unit since 1999.

Carlo Forlanini

Carlo Forlanini (1847–1918) was an Italian physician who invented therapeutic artificial pneumothorax, collapsing the tuberculous lung with nitrogen gas as the first effective tuberculosis treatment before antibiotics.

Carlo La Vecchia

Carlo La Vecchia is an Italian medical statistician and cancer epidemiologist at the Mario Negri Institute and University of Milan, known for large case-control studies quantifying cancer risk factors.

Carlo M. Croce

Carlo M. Croce, also known as Carlo Maria Croce, is an Italian-born American physician-scientist in cancer genetics whose laboratory discovered the BCL2 oncogene and first linked microRNAs to human cancer.

Carlo Pappone

Carlo Pappone, born in 1961, is an Italian cardiac electrophysiologist who developed the Pappone approach to atrial fibrillation ablation and heads arrhythmology at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato in Milan.

Carlo Patrono

Carlo Patrono is an Italian clinical pharmacologist known for establishing low-dose aspirin as an antithrombotic drug, honored with the Institut de France's 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique.

Carlo Salvarani

Carlo Salvarani (born 1954 in Reggio Emilia) is an Italian rheumatologist who directed rheumatology in Reggio Emilia and Modena, collaborated with the Mayo Clinic, and researched vasculitis.

Carlos A. Camargo

Carlos A. Camargo is an American emergency physician and epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who founded the Emergency Medicine Network and studies vitamin D.

Carlos A. Zarate

Carlos A. Zarate, Jr. is an Argentine-born American psychiatrist and NIH Distinguished Investigator whose trials showed ketamine relieves treatment-resistant depression within hours, contributing to the FDA-approved esketamine.

Carlos Alberto Zarate Jr.

Carlos Alberto Zarate Jr. is an American psychiatrist and NIH Distinguished Investigator at NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland, best known for showing that a single ketamine infusion rapidly reduces depressive and suicidal symptoms in treatment-resistant depression.

Carlos Ardavı́n

Carlos Ardavín is a Spanish immunologist and CSIC Research Professor at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Madrid, known for his work on the origins of dendritic cells and macrophages.

Carlos Arvelo

Carlos Arvelo (1784–1862) was a Venezuelan physician and independence-era officer who served as chief surgeon of Simón Bolívar's Liberating Army and later became Rector of the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Carlos Blanco (psychiatrist)

Carlos Blanco is a Spanish-born American psychiatrist and epidemiologist who has directed the Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 2015.

Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist)

Carlos J. Bustamante is a Peruvian-trained single-molecule biophysicist and HHMI Investigator at UC Berkeley whose laboratory was the first to stretch a single DNA molecule with optical tweezers.

Carlos Caldas

Carlos Caldas, born 1960, is a clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at Cambridge, known for the METABRIC study classifying breast cancer into 10 molecular types.

Carlos Chagas

Carlos Chagas was a Brazilian physician and scientist who discovered Trypanosoma cruzi, its triatomine vector, and Chagas disease in Minas Gerais in 1908 and 1909.