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Christia
Christia (island pea; 蝙蝠草属) is a Fabaceae genus of herbs established by Moench in 1802, native from tropical Asia to northern Australia, with about 11 species including the ornamental butterfly-leaf C. vespertilionis.
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922-2001), South African cardiac surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, led the world's first human-to-human heart transplant on 3 December 1967 (donor Denise Darvall, recipient Louis Washkansky) and the first interracial transplant in January 1968.
Christiaan Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician who won half of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the antineuritic vitamin, later called vitamin B1.
Christian B. Anfinsen
Christian B. Anfinsen was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing that a protein's structure is determined by its amino acid sequence.
Christian Blank
Christian Blank is a German medical oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam who pioneered neoadjuvant immunotherapy in melanoma, leading the OpACIN, PRADO, and NADINA trials.
Christian Bohr
Christian Bohr was a Danish physician and physiologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for the Bohr effect and as the father of physicist Niels Bohr.
Christian Bréchot
Christian Bréchot, born in 1952, is a French virologist and hepatologist who established the role of hepatitis B and C viruses in liver cancer and led the Institut Pasteur.
Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel is a German cognitive neuroscientist, director of the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, known for pain and placebo research.
Christian Buske
Christian Buske is a German hematologist and oncologist who leads the Institute of Experimental Tumor Research at University Hospital Ulm and studies leukemic stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia.
Christian Cambillau
Christian Cambillau, born 1951, is a French CNRS structural biologist in Marseille known for the X-ray structures of pancreatic lipase and its cofactor colipase published in Nature in 1992 and 1993.
Christian Confavreux
Christian Confavreux (1949–2013) was a French neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher, professor of neurology in Lyon, who founded the EDMUS database and led landmark studies of MS progression.
Christian de Duve
Christian de Duve (1917–2013) was a Belgian biochemist who discovered the cell organelles lysosomes and peroxisomes, winning a third of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Christian Drosten
Christian Drosten, born 1972 in Lingen, Germany, is a German virologist who directs the Institute of Virology at Charité Berlin and became the German government's go-to COVID-19 expert.
Christian F. Doeller
Christian F. Doeller is a German cognitive neuroscientist who directs the psychology department at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and detected the first grid-cell signals in the human brain.
Christian F. Lehner
Christian F. Lehner, born 1956, is a molecular biologist and professor of developmental biology at the University of Zurich known for cell-cycle research in Drosophila.
Christian Fankhauser
Christian Fankhauser is a Swiss plant biologist and professor at the University of Lausanne who studies how plants sense light, including phototropism and shade avoidance.
Christian Frezza
Christian Frezza is an Italian cancer metabolism researcher who established fumarate as an oncometabolite and holds the Metabolomics in Aging chair at the University of Cologne.
Christian Frøkjær-Jensen
Christian Frøkjær-Jensen is a Danish bioengineer and associate professor of bioscience at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, known for genome engineering and epigenetic gene regulation in C. elegans.
Christian Gisselbrecht
Christian Gisselbrecht is a French hematologist and clinical trialist, former head of clinical hematology at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, specialized in non-Hodgkin lymphomas and known for the GELA LNH98-5 trial.
Christian Gluud
Christian Gluud (C. Gluud) is a Danish hepatologist who led the Copenhagen Trial Unit at Rigshospitalet from 1995 to 2025 and founded the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group in 1996.
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876), German naturalist and microscopist of Berlin, described over 500 infusoria species in his 1838 monograph Die Infusionsthierchen, proposed the erroneous Polygastrica theory, and founded micropaleontology with Mikrogeologie (1854).
Christian Griesinger
Christian Griesinger, born 1960 in Ulm, is an NMR spectroscopist and structural biologist who has led a Max Planck Institute department in Göttingen since 1999.
Christian Haass
Christian Haass is a German biochemist, professor at LMU Munich since 1999, known for showing that the amyloid beta-peptide central to Alzheimer's disease is produced by cells under normal conditions.
Christian Hackenberger
Christian P. R. Hackenberger (born 1976 in Osnabrück) is a German chemical biologist who, since 2012, has been Leibniz-Humboldt Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and heads chemical biology at the FMP in Berlin.
Christian Happi
Christian Tientcha Happi, born 1968 in Cameroon, is a molecular biologist who directs ACEGID at Redeemer's University in Nigeria and sequenced Africa's first SARS-CoV-2 genome.
Christian Hardtke
Christian S. Hardtke is a plant developmental biologist, full professor at the University of Lausanne since 2010, known for cloning MONOPTEROS and discovering the root growth regulator BREVIS RADIX.
Christian Hassager
Christian Hassager is a Danish cardiologist and clinical professor at Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen who led the 2024 DanGer Shock trial of microaxial pumps in cardiogenic shock.
Christian Heerfordt
Christian Frederik Heerfordt was a Danish ophthalmologist, born in Terndrup in 1871, whose 1909 description of Heerfordt's syndrome, a rare sarcoidosis presentation, keeps his name in medical use.
Christian Hertweck
Christian Hertweck is a German natural product chemist who studies how bacteria and fungi make biologically active compounds, and who received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2015.
Christian Ingerslev Baastrup
Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (1885–1950) was a Danish radiologist at Copenhagen's Bispebjerg Hospital whose 1933 paper gave his name to Baastrup's disease, or kissing spines.