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Charles A. Dinarello
Charles A. Dinarello is an immunologist who discovered, purified, and cloned interleukin-1, a founding father of cytokine biology, and a professor at the University of Colorado.
Charles A. Herzog
Charles A. Herzog, also known as Charles Herzog, is an American cardiologist at Hennepin County Medical Center who specializes in heart disease in dialysis patients and echocardiography.
Charles A. Hufnagel
Charles A. Hufnagel (1916–1989) was an American cardiac surgeon at Georgetown University who developed the caged-ball artificial heart valve and first implanted one in a human in 1952.
Charles A. Janeway
Charles Alderson Janeway (1909–1981) was an American pediatrician and immunologist who was physician-in-chief at Children's Hospital, Boston, and defined the antibody deficiency disorders as a class of disease.
Charles A. McCallum
Charles A. McCallum, also known as Charles Alexander McCallum Jr., was an American oral and maxillofacial surgeon who served as the third president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1987 to 1993.
Charles A. Sanders
Charles A. Sanders (born 1932) is an American cardiologist who was general director of Massachusetts General Hospital from 1972 to 1981 and later led Glaxo Inc.
Charles A. Schiffer
Charles A. Schiffer is an American hematologic oncologist known for leukemia treatment research and platelet transfusion therapy, based at Wayne State University and the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
Charles A. Stock
Charles A. Stock is an American research oceanographer at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, known for modeling how climate and marine ecosystems interact.
Charles A. Thornton
Charles A. Thornton is a neurologist and physician-scientist at the University of Rochester who showed that toxic CUG-repeat RNA causes myotonic dystrophy type 1 and drove its first mechanism-based treatments.
Charles Alfred Ballance
Charles Alfred Ballance (1856–1936) was a British surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital who performed the first removal of a cerebellopontine angle tumor in 1894 and the first facial nerve crossover anastomosis in 1895.
Charles Anderson (marine biologist)
R. Charles Anderson is a UK-trained marine biologist based in the Maldives since 1983, known for pioneering whale and dolphin watching and research on cetaceans, sharks, and manta rays.
Charles Antzelevitch
Charles Antzelevitch is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who led the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory for three decades and is known for work on Brugada syndrome and J wave syndromes.
Charles Armstrong (physician)
Charles Armstrong (1886–1967) was an American physician and virologist with the U.S. Public Health Service and NIH, known for polio research and discovering lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in 1933.
Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas (Angelo Siciliano, 1892-1972), Italian-American bodybuilder named the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man in 1922, who sold the Dynamic Tension mail-order course to millions via the famous 97-pound weakling comic-book ads.
Charles Atwood Kofoid
Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865–1947) was an American zoologist who studied marine plankton and protozoa at UC Berkeley and was a central figure in founding the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Charles B. Carrington
Charles B. Carrington was an American pulmonary pathologist whose 1969 and 1978 papers defined the classification of chronic eosinophilic and interstitial pneumonias; chronic eosinophilic pneumonia bears his name.
Charles B. Hammond
Charles B. Hammond (1936–2021) was an American gynecologic oncologist and reproductive endocrinologist at Duke University, known for pioneering chemotherapy treatment of gestational trophoblastic disease and chairing Duke's obstetrics department.
Charles B. Kimmel
Charles B. Kimmel, known as Chuck Kimmel, is an American developmental biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Oregon who established zebrafish as a vertebrate model organism.
Charles B. Nemeroff
Charles B. Nemeroff, born 1949, is an American psychiatrist and neurobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for research on depression and childhood trauma.
Charles B. Wilson
Charles B. Wilson, also known as Charles Byron Wilson (1929–2018), was an American neurosurgeon who founded UCSF's Department of Neurological Surgery and performed more than 3,300 transsphenoidal pituitary operations.
Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish anatomist and surgeon; described Bell's palsy, Bell's phenomenon, and the long thoracic nerve; central figure in the Bell–Magendie spinal-root priority dispute.
Charles Benedict Davenport
Charles Benedict Davenport (1866–1944) was an American zoologist and geneticist who led the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor and founded the Eugenics Record Office.
Charles Bixler Heiser
Charles Bixler Heiser Jr. (1920–2010) was an American botanist at Indiana University known for work on sunflower hybridization and on cultivated plants including chile peppers, gourds, and quinoa.
Charles Boone (molecular geneticist)
Charles Boone is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto whose lab developed Synthetic Genetic Array analysis, mapping nearly 1 million genetic interactions in yeast.
Charles Brenner (biochemist)
Charles Brenner (born 1961) is an American biochemist known for discovering nicotinamide riboside as an NAD+ precursor vitamin, and a professor of metabolic regulation at the University of Helsinki from 2026.
Charles C. Capen
Charles C. Capen was an American veterinary pathologist at The Ohio State University who became a leading authority on endocrine pathology and thyroid toxicology, dying in 2008.
Charles C. Richardson
Charles C. Richardson is an American biochemist and Harvard Medical School physician-scientist known for discovering key enzymes of DNA metabolism and developing bacteriophage T7 as a replication model system.
Charles C. Sprague
Charles C. Sprague, also known as Charles Cameron Sprague, was an American hematologist and the first President of UT Southwestern Medical Center, serving from 1972 to 1986.
Charles C.J. Carpenter
Charles C.J. Carpenter (died 2024) was an American physician and professor emeritus at Brown University, known for chairing the IAS-USA HIV treatment guidelines panels and building HIV care in Rhode Island.
Charles Chavkin
Charles Chavkin (C. Chavkin) is an American neuropharmacologist, professor at the University of Washington, known for establishing dynorphin as the kappa opioid receptor's endogenous ligand.