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Charles G. Cochrane
Charles G. Cochrane, born 1930, is an American immunologist at Scripps Research known for work on immune complex disease and the lung surfactant protein behind the drug Surfaxin.
Charles G. Gross
Charles G. Gross (1936–2019) was an American neuroscientist at Princeton University whose recordings from monkeys' inferior temporal cortex established how the brain recognizes objects and faces.
Charles G. Moertel
Charles G. Moertel (1927–1994) was an American oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose large randomized trials changed chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers and disproved laetrile and vitamin C as cancer remedies.
Charles G. Prober
Charles G. Prober is a pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for research on herpes simplex virus infections in pregnant women and newborns.
Charles Gandy
Charles Gandy (21 April 1872 – 5 July 1943) was a French physician known for the eponym Gandy–Gamna nodules, iron- and calcium-encrusted splenic lesions he described in a patient with biliary cirrhosis around 1905.
Charles Gilbert Chaddock
Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1861–1936) was an American neurologist in St Louis, Missouri, who described the Chaddock reflex in 1911 and introduced Babinski's sign to the United States in 1899.
Charles Glabe
Charles Glabe is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, a professor at UC Irvine known for conformation-dependent antibodies that recognize soluble amyloid oligomers in Alzheimer's disease.
Charles H. Halsted
Charles H. Halsted is an American physician-scientist, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for showing in 1971 that folate malabsorption in alcoholics stems from poor nutrition.
Charles H. Hennekens
Charles H. Hennekens is an American physician and epidemiologist whose randomized trials first demonstrated that aspirin prevents a first heart attack, making him among the most cited medical researchers.
Charles H. Langley
Charles H. Langley is an American population geneticist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis who studies mutation, recombination, and selection in Drosophila, winning the 1999 Genetics Society of America Medal.
Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr.
Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr. (1911–1981) was an American physician and infectious-disease researcher who showed penicillin treatment of strep throat prevents rheumatic fever, winning the 1954 Lasker Award.
Charles H. Rodeck
Charles H. Rodeck, born 1944, is a British obstetrician and Emeritus Professor at University College London, a pioneer of fetal medicine and first to describe direct fetal blood transfusion.
Charles H. Sawyer (neuroendocrinologist)
Charles H. Sawyer (1915–2006) was an American neuroendocrinologist at UCLA whose experiments established how the brain controls the pituitary gland and reproductive function, work influential in developing the birth control pill.
Charles H. Slocumb
Charles H. Slocumb (1905–1996) was an American rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic who gave the first cortisone injection to a rheumatoid arthritis patient in 1948 and co-authored the 1949 report on its dramatic effects.
Charles Harington (chemist)
Sir Charles Robert Harington (1897–1972) was a British biochemist who determined thyroxine's structure, contributed to the purification of insulin, and directed the National Institute for Medical Research.
Charles Haskell Danforth
Charles Haskell Danforth (1883–1969) was an American anatomist and geneticist who led anatomy at Stanford University and pioneered estimating mutation rates for dominant human genes.
Charles Hedley
Charles Hedley (1862–1926) was a British-born Australian conchologist who rose from volunteer to Assistant Curator at the Australian Museum and described hundreds of mollusc species.
Charles Heidelberger
Charles Heidelberger (1920–1983) was an American biochemist who developed the anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil at the University of Wisconsin's McArdle Laboratory, where he worked from 1948 to 1976.
Charles Henry Tyler Townsend
Charles Henry Tyler Townsend (1863–1944), American entomologist and dipterist specializing in Tachinidae; described 1,491 genera and 1,555 species, wrote the 12-volume Manual of Myiology, and settled in Brazil.
Charles Herbert Best
Charles Herbert Best (1899–1978) was a Canadian physiologist who co-discovered insulin with Frederick Banting in 1921, chaired physiology at the University of Toronto, and helped purify heparin.
Charles Hollenberg
Charles H. Hollenberg (1930–2003) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher known for studying fat cells, who led the University of Toronto's medicine department and founded the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre.
Charles Horace Mayo
Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939) was an American surgeon who co-founded the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, with his brother William, becoming a leader in thyroid and head-and-neck surgery.
Charles Huggins
Charles Huggins was a Canadian-born American surgeon and urologist at the University of Chicago who showed that hormones govern prostate and breast cancer growth, winning the 1966 Nobel Prize.
Charles I. Scott
Charles I. Scott, Jr. is an American pediatrician and medical geneticist who trained at Johns Hopkins, worked in Wilmington, Delaware, and helped create the skeletal dysplasia nomenclature.
Charles J. Arntzen
Charles J. Arntzen is an American plant biologist, called "the godfather of pharming," who pioneered plant-made vaccines and contributed to ZMapp, the tobacco-produced Ebola antibody used in 2014.
Charles J. Epstein
Charles J. Epstein (1933–2011) was an American human geneticist who led UCSF's medical genetics division for 40 years and created the first mouse model of Down syndrome.
Charles J. Goodner
Charles J. Goodner (1929–2018) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington, known for his 1974 Science paper on somatostatin's inhibition of insulin and glucagon.
Charles J. Lockwood
Charles J. Lockwood is an American obstetrician-gynecologist who leads USF Health and is known for discovering fetal fibronectin, the first biochemical predictor of preterm birth.
Charles J. Lowenstein
Charles J. Lowenstein is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who directs the Division of Cardiology and studies nitric oxide signaling, vascular inflammation, and thrombosis.
Charles J. Sherr
Charles J. Sherr is an American physician-scientist and emeritus researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for discoveries in oncogenes, tumor suppressors, and cell cycle control.