Life and health

Christian J. Herold

Christian J. Herold is an Austrian radiologist and professor emeritus at the Medical University of Vienna, known for chest imaging, oncologic imaging, and hepatobiliary MRI.

Christian Spencer Jessen, British doctor and TV presenter known for Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies and Supersize vs Superskinny; sexual health physician ordered in 2021 to pay Arlene Foster £125,000 libel damages over a tweet.

Christian Klämbt

Christian Klämbt is a German developmental neurogeneticist, Professor at the University of Münster since 1997, known for making the Drosophila CNS midline a genetic model of axon guidance.

Christian Kurts

Christian Kurts is a German physician-scientist and immunologist who has been Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Bonn since 2003, studying dendritic cells, cross-presentation, and kidney immunology.

Christian Leuckert

Christian Leuckert (1930–2011), German lichen chemotaxonomist and professor at the Free University of Berlin; recruited by Josef Poelt in 1965, led lichen chemistry research, received the 1996 Acharius Medal.

Christian Lüscher

Christian Lüscher is a Swiss neurologist and neuroscientist, full professor at the University of Geneva, whose research identifies the synaptic changes addictive drugs impose on dopamine circuits.

Christian Metallo

Christian M. Metallo is a bioengineer holding the Daniel and Martina Lewis Chair at the Salk Institute who studies cancer metabolism, serine and glycine restriction, and diabetic neuropathy.

Christian Mortensen

Christian Mortensen (1882-1998), Danish-American supercentenarian, oldest validated man at death at 115 years 252 days; record held until Jiroemon Kimura in 2012; validated by GRG via Danish records.

Christian Mueller

Christian Eugen Mueller is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at University Hospital Basel who led PRESC1SE-MI, a trial of over 62,000 patients across 19 hospitals in ten countries.

Christian Münz

Christian Münz, born 1969 in Wertingen, Germany, is an immunologist who directs the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich and studies immune control of Epstein–Barr virus.

Christian P. Larsen

Christian P. Larsen is an American transplant surgeon and immunologist at Emory University School of Medicine, known for developing belatacept, the first costimulation blocker approved for kidney transplant recipients.

Christian R. Landry

Christian R. Landry is a Canadian molecular and evolutionary biologist, a professor at Université Laval in Québec City known for work on how gene duplication and protein networks evolve.

Christian R.H. Raetz

Christian Rudolf Hubert Raetz (1946 or 1947–2011) was a German-born American biochemist who mapped the pathway bacteria use to build lipid A, an essential outer-membrane molecule of Gram-negative bacteria.

Christian Rosenmund

Christian Rosenmund is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology at Charité Berlin since 2009, known for defining the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles with Charles Stevens in 1996.

Christian Schlötterer

Christian Schlötterer is an Austrian population geneticist, head of the Institute of Population Genetics at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, known for Pool-Seq, microsatellite evolution, and Drosophila experimental evolution.

Christian Spaulding

Christian Spaulding is a French interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiology at Université Paris Cité, known for his 1997 study of coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and drug-eluting stent safety.

Christian Steidl

Christian Steidl is a German-trained Canadian physician-scientist who leads lymphoma research at BC Cancer and is a pathology professor at the University of British Columbia.

Christian T. Ruff

Christian T. Ruff is an American cardiologist who directs General Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and researches antithrombotic therapies, including stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Christian the lion

Christian the lion: lion cub bought from Harrods, London, in 1969 by Australians John Rendall and Ace Bourke, raised in Chelsea, released into the wild in Kenya by George Adamson, and famous for the 1971 reunion video seen by over 100 million people.

Christian Torp‐Pedersen

Christian Torp-Pedersen (born 1950) is a Danish cardiologist and clinical epidemiologist known for landmark trials in heart failure and arrhythmia, whose work changed international treatment guidelines.

Christian Trautwein

Christian Trautwein is a German hepatologist known for research on liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, who directed Medizinische Klinik III at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen from 2005 to 2024.

Christian von Mering

Christian von Mering is a Swiss-based bioinformatician and full professor at the University of Zurich, known for the STRING protein-network database and the eggNOG orthology resource.

Christian W. Hamm

Christian W. Hamm, born 1953 in Hamburg, is a German interventional cardiologist known for 1990s NEJM troponin studies and for leading the Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center in Bad Nauheim.

Christian Weber (cardiologist)

Christian Weber (born 1967) is a German cardiologist and leading atherosclerosis researcher who holds the Chair in Preventive Vascular Medicine and directs the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention at LMU Munich.

Christian Wolfrum

Christian Wolfrum (born 1972 in Bonn) is a German metabolic researcher studying obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver, and Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Christiane Branlant

Christiane Branlant is a French molecular biologist who spent her career with CNRS in Nancy, known for work on RNA maturation, pseudouridine synthases, and small nucleolar and nuclear RNPs.

Christiane F.

Christiane F. (Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo), 1981 West German film by Uli Edel based on the 1978 memoir of teenage heroin addict Christiane Felscherinow, starring Natja Brunckhorst with a David Bowie soundtrack.

Christiane Kühl

Christiane Kuhl, born 1966 in Bonn, is a German radiologist and professor at RWTH Aachen whose Lancet study showed MRI detects far more DCIS than mammography.

Christiane Nüsslein‐Volhard

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, born in 1942, is a German developmental biologist who identified genes controlling embryonic development in fruit flies, work honored with the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.