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Carol Greider
Carol W. Greider, born in 1961, is an American molecular biologist who discovered the enzyme telomerase as a graduate student and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Carol J. Baker
Carol J. Baker is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine whose work showed maternal antibody protects newborns against group B Streptococcus, earning the 2019 Sabin Gold Medal.
Carol Klein
Carol Klein (born 1945, Walkden, Lancashire) is a British gardener, author, and BBC Gardeners' World co-presenter; founder of Glebe Cottage Plants, six Chelsea golds, Victoria Medal of Honour 2018, author of RHS Grow Your Own Veg and Hortobiography.
Carol L. Shields
Carol L. Shields is an American ocular oncologist who leads the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital and helped create the International Classification of Retinoblastoma.
Carol Louik
Carol Louik is an epidemiologist at Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center who studies pregnancy exposures and birth defects, leading NEJM studies of spermicides in 1987 and SSRIs in 2007.
Carol M. Black
Dame Carol Black is a British rheumatologist and international expert on scleroderma who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians from 2002 to 2006.
Carol M. Mangione
Carol M. Mangione is an American physician and health services researcher at UCLA, chief of general internal medicine there and chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force since 2022.
Carol Mason
Carol Mason is an American developmental neurobiologist at Columbia University who studies how retinal axons cross at the optic chiasm to wire binocular vision, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Carol Prives
Carol Prives is a cancer biologist and DaCosta Professor of Biology at Columbia University, known since the late 1980s for her studies of the p53 tumor suppressor protein.
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck is an American psychologist at Stanford University known for research on growth and fixed mindsets and their effect on motivation and achievement.
Carol S. Newlon
Carol S. Newlon is an American molecular biologist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School known for her work on DNA replication origins in budding yeast.
Carol Yager
Carol Ann Yager (1960–1994) was an American woman from Flint, Michigan, widely described as the heaviest woman ever recorded at a confirmed 1,189 pounds in 1993.
Carola G. Vinuesa
Carola G. Vinuesa is a Spanish-born immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for defining follicular regulatory T cells and finding genetic causes of lupus.
Carole Baskin
Carole Baskin is an American animal rights activist who founded Big Cat Rescue near Tampa, Florida, and became famous through the 2020 Netflix series Tiger King.
Carole Dabney-Smith
Carole Dabney-Smith is a biochemist at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who studies how chloroplasts transport folded proteins and received a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award.
Carole Hooven
Carole Hooven is an American evolutionary biologist who studies hormones, the brain, and behavior, taught at Harvard from 2005 to 2023, and wrote T (2021).
Carole Mitnick
Carole Mitnick is an American epidemiologist and Harvard Medical School professor known for community-based drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment trials in Peru and the multinational endTB trial.
Carole Ober
Carole Ober is an American human geneticist at the University of Chicago who studies the genetics of asthma, allergic disease, and fertility in the Hutterite founder population.
Caroli disease
Caroli disease, also called congenital intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, is a rare autosomal recessive PKHD1-related dilatation of intrahepatic bile ducts; with congenital hepatic fibrosis it is Caroli syndrome, with cholangitis, stones, and cholangiocarcinoma risk.
Carolia
Carolia is an extinct genus of byssally attached bivalve mollusks in the family Anomiidae, first appearing in the Lower Eocene of Senegal, Egypt, and Pakistan.
Carolina Barillas‐Mury
Carolina Barillas-Mury is a Guatemalan-born physician-scientist who studies how the mosquito immune system interacts with malaria parasites, and who leads the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at NIH.
Carolina Dog
Carolina Dog, also called American Dingo or yaller dog: a primitive landrace dog from the southeastern US, described by I. Lehr Brisbin in the 1970s, UKC-recognized 1995, AKC FSS since 2017, with East Asian-linked mtDNA haplotype A184.
Carolina parakeet
Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), the only parrot native to the United States, a green, yellow, and orange bird extinct since 1918 (last captive, Cincinnati Zoo); genome shows no inbreeding, abrupt human-driven extinction, two subspecies dying out around 1914 and 1940.
Carolina Reaper
Carolina Reaper, bred by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company in South Carolina, was the Guinness-certified hottest chilli from 2013 (1,569,300 SHU average) until Pepper X dethroned it in October 2023 at 2,693,000 SHU.
Carolina wren
Carolina wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus), a nonmigratory eastern US wren; only the male sings the loud teakettle song; nests in cavities and human objects; about 19 million birds, low concern.
Caroline A Crowther
Caroline A Crowther is a New Zealand maternal fetal medicine specialist and Emeritus Professor at the Liggins Institute, whose trials changed care for preterm birth and gestational diabetes.
Caroline Breese Hall
Caroline Breese Hall (1939–2012) was an American pediatrician and virologist at the University of Rochester whose work defined the epidemiology and management of respiratory syncytial virus in children.
Caroline Buckee
Caroline O'Flaherty Buckee is a Harvard epidemiology professor known for using mobile phone data to map malaria spread, including a 2012 study of 15 million Kenyan call records.
Caroline Dean
Caroline Dean is a plant molecular biologist at the John Innes Centre known for work on vernalisation and the epigenetic silencing of the floral repressor FLC, winning the 2020 Wolf Prize.
Caroline Dive
Caroline Dive is a British cancer pharmacologist at the University of Manchester known for pioneering circulating tumor cell models of small-cell lung cancer and liquid biopsy research.