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Colin B. Begg

Colin B. Begg is a biostatistician who chairs the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and has edited the journal Clinical Trials since 2014.

Colin Baigent

Colin Baigent is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist who led large trials at Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit, including SHARP and EMPA-KIDNEY, until retiring in 2023.

Colin Berry

Colin Berry is a Scottish cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology and Imaging at the University of Glasgow whose research uses cardiac MRI to guide treatment of angina and heart attack patients.

Colin Blakemore

Colin Blakemore (1944–2022) was a British neuroscientist known for demonstrating neural plasticity, the reorganization of brain cells in response to the environment after birth and even in adulthood.

Colin Dayan

Colin Dayan is a British clinical endocrinologist known for autoimmune thyroid disease research and leading type 1 diabetes immunotherapy trials, including the 2022 FDA application for teplizumab.

Colin Dingwall

Colin Dingwall is a molecular biologist whose 1982 nucleoplasmin work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology defined how proteins are targeted into the cell nucleus.

Colin Funk

Colin D. Funk is a pharmacology researcher known for cloning human 5-lipoxygenase, creating gene-targeted mice lacking prostaglandin and leukotriene pathways, and linking them to atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysm.

Colin G. Nichols

Colin G. Nichols is a physiologist and Carl Cori Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for ion channel research that changed neonatal diabetes treatment.

Colin J. Barnstable

Colin J. Barnstable, also published as C. J. Barnstable, is a British-trained vision researcher and professor at Penn State College of Medicine, known for studies of the neuroprotective retinal protein PEDF.

Colin J. Carlson

Colin J. Carlson is an American epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, known for a 2022 Nature paper on climate change and viral spillover.

Colin Jamora

Colin Jamora is an American-trained cell biologist who studies epithelial tissue regeneration, wound healing, and scarring, and leads the Department of Life Sciences at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence.

Colin L. Masters

Colin L. Masters is an Australian neuroscientist at the Florey Institute and University of Melbourne, known for purifying Alzheimer's plaque amyloid and co-founding Prana Biotechnology.

Colin L. Stewart

Colin L. Stewart, also known as Colin Stewart, is a molecular biologist at A*STAR Skin Research Labs in Singapore who showed LMNA mutations cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria.

Colin Lever

Colin Lever is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at Durham University, best known for discovering boundary vector cells, neurons that fire at a preferred distance and direction from environmental boundaries.

Colin Mathers

Colin Mathers is an Australian health statistician, trained as a physicist, who led WHO's Epidemiology and Burden of Disease unit and authored widely used global mortality projections to 2030.

Colin Munro MacLeod

Colin Munro MacLeod (1909–1972) was an American microbiologist who, with Oswald Avery and Maclyn McCarty, showed in 1944 that DNA carries heredity, then led microbiology at New York University.

Colin Parrish

Colin R. Parrish is a virologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023 for research on virus host jumps.

Colin Pittendrigh

Colin Pittendrigh (1918–1996) was an England-born biologist regarded as the father of the biological clock, who founded chronobiology and studied circadian rhythms at Princeton and Stanford.

Colin Prentice

Iain Colin Prentice is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, Professor of Biosphere and Climate Impacts at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society elected in 2018.

Colin R. Goding

Colin R. Goding, also known as Colin Goding, is a molecular biologist and Professor of Oncology at Oxford's Ludwig Institute, known for research on melanoma and MITF.

Colin R. Hopkins

Colin R. Hopkins, born 1939, is a British cell biologist known for work on receptor-mediated endocytosis and for defining the endosome as the organelle that sorts internalized molecules.

Colin W. Taylor

Colin W. Taylor, also published as C W Taylor, is a British cellular pharmacologist at Cambridge known for his work on IP3 receptors, intracellular calcium channels.

Colin Watts

Colin Watts is an immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Immunobiology at the University of Dundee, known for work on how antigens are captured, processed, and presented to the immune system.

Coliphages

Coliphages are bacteriophages that infect Escherichia coli; the somatic and F-specific groups serve as viral indicators of fecal pollution, enumerated by ISO 10705 and USEPA Methods 1601–1643 in water quality monitoring.

Colistin

Colistin, also known as polymyxin E, is a polymyxin antibiotic used as a last-resort treatment for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections, returning to systemic use by the mid-1990s after decades of abandonment over toxicity.

Colitis

Colitis is inflammation of the colon (large intestine), with infectious, ischemic, microscopic, radiation, and IBD forms such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease; symptoms include bloody diarrhea, and treatment depends on cause.

Colius

Colius Brisson, 1760 is a genus of mousebirds (Coliiformes, Coliidae) with four African species: castanotus, colius, leucocephalus, and striatus; folivorous, sunning birds endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.

Collaborative care model

The collaborative care model is a healthcare delivery model in which a primary care provider, care manager, and psychiatric consultant jointly treat depression in primary care.

Collagen

Collagen is the most abundant protein in animals, a fibrous structural protein whose triple-helix forms the scaffold of skin, bone, tendon, cartilage, and other connective tissues, and yields gelatin.

Collagen formation

Collagen formation is the multistep process by which cells synthesize, assemble, and cross-link collagen, the body's most plentiful protein and the main structural component of connective tissue.