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Christiania

Christiania is an extinct Ordovician brachiopod genus (Hall & Clarke 1892, family Christianiidae), type species Leptaena subquadrata, a cosmopolitan deep-water suspension feeder; also the former name of Oslo in 19th-century geology.

Christianson syndrome

Christianson syndrome, also known as X-linked Angelman-like syndrome, is a rare X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder caused by SLC9A6 mutations, causing severe intellectual disability, epilepsy, ataxia, and absent speech in males.

Christie M. Ballantyne

Christie M. Ballantyne is an American cardiologist and lipid researcher who serves as Section Chief of Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and led the REDUCE-IT trial.

Christina A. Mitchell

Christina A. Mitchell AO is an Australian physician-scientist and biochemist who studies phosphoinositide signaling in cancer, and is the first woman appointed Dean of Medicine in an Australian Group of Eight university.

Christina Agapakis

Christina Agapakis is an American synthetic biologist trained at Yale and Harvard known for resurrecting the smell of extinct flowers and for the Selfmade body-bacteria cheese exhibit.

Christina Curtis

Christina Curtis is a cancer genomicist who leads the Cancer Computational and Systems Biology group at Stanford University, known for showing that metastatic spread often begins years before a tumor is clinically detectable.

Christina D. Economos

Christina D. Economos is an American nutrition scientist who studies childhood obesity prevention and serves as dean of Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Christina K. Kim

Christina K. Kim, known as Tina Kim, is an American neuroscientist and HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at Princeton University who develops molecular tools that record neural activity in individual neurons.

Christina L. Swaggerty

Christina L. Swaggerty is an American poultry immunologist and USDA research microbiologist in College Station, Texas, known for breeding chickens resistant to Salmonella and Campylobacter.

Christina Leslie (computational biologist)

Christina S. Leslie is a computational biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for machine learning models of transcription factor binding, including BindSpace and CellSpace.

Christina Warinner

Christina Warinner is an archaeological geneticist who studies the ancient human oral microbiome and evolution of diet and disease, leading research groups at Harvard and in Leipzig, Germany.

Christine A. Biron

Christine A. Biron was an American immunologist and Brown University professor known for work on natural killer cells and how innate cytokines regulate antiviral defense.

Christine A. Petersen

Christine A. Petersen is a veterinary immunologist and epidemiologist, a National Academy of Medicine member, known for research on canine leishmaniasis and veterinary infection-control guidelines.

Christine Blasey Ford

Christine Blasey Ford, American research psychologist at Palo Alto University and Stanford School of Medicine; testified in 2018 that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982; Kavanaugh denied it and was confirmed 50-48; memoir One Way Back (2024).

Christine D. Berg

Christine D. Berg is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist who co-led the National Lung Screening Trial, establishing low-dose CT screening as reducing lung-cancer deaths.

Christine E. Dehlendorf

Christine E. Dehlendorf is a family physician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on racial and socioeconomic disparities in family planning.

Christine E. Holt

Christine E. Holt is a British developmental neuroscientist and Cambridge professor known for showing that growing nerve fibers make their own proteins, winning the 2023 Brain Prize.

Christine E. Seidman

Christine E. Seidman is an American physician-scientist and human molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital whose laboratory identified many genes that cause inherited heart disease.

Christine Guthrie

Christine Guthrie (1945–2022) was an American RNA biologist at UCSF who used baker's yeast to identify the snRNAs that direct pre-mRNA splicing, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Christine H. Chung

Christine H. Chung is an American medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer who chairs the Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology department at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

Christine H. Foyer

Christine H. Foyer (Christine Foyer) is a plant scientist and Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Birmingham since 2019, known for the Foyer–Halliwell–Asada pathway.

Christine Hartmann

Christine Hartmann, also Christine Siantar, is a medical physicist who spent 27 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, leading the Peregrine radiation-dose program and winning a 1996 PECASE award.

Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Christine Jacobs-Wagner is a Belgian-born microbiologist at Stanford University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2008, known as a pioneer of bacterial cell biology.

Christine Kim Garcia

Christine Kim Garcia, also published as Christine K. Garcia, is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who studies the genetics of lung disease and leads pulmonary medicine at Columbia University.

Christine Klein

Christine Klein is a German neurologist and neurogeneticist who directs the Institute of Neurogenetics at the University of Lübeck and researches the genetics of Parkinson's disease and dystonia.

Christine Laine MD, MPH

Christine Laine, MD, MPH, is an American general internist and Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal she joined in 1995 as its first woman Associate Editor.

Christine M. Albert

Christine M. Albert is a cardiologist and cardiac epidemiologist whose research links lifestyle, nutrition, and genetics to sudden cardiac death; she became founding cardiology chair at Cedars-Sinai in 2019.

Christine M. Freeman

Christine M. Freeman is an American lung immunology researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor who studies why some smokers develop COPD, and received a PECASE award.

Christine Marie (psychologist)

Christine Marie, media psychologist (PhD, Fielding Graduate University), cult survivor and Voices for Dignity founder; 2021 APA Division 46 dissertation award winner; FBI informant against FLDS prophet Samuel Bateman, featured in Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet.

Christine Mayr

Christine Mayr is a German-trained physician-scientist and molecular biologist who leads a laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, known for showing that mRNA 3′UTRs regulate protein function.