DMS Faculty Last Name: C

Dr. Simon Caine	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Psychology	MCL	NSCI		Behavioral pharmacology of stimulant drugs and brain dopamine systems as they relate to psychiatric disorders.
Dr. James Campbell	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Dermatology (Pathology)	BWH	BBS		Tissue-specific lymphocyte homing and diversity
Dr. Lewis Cantley	Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	NRB	BBS		Signal transduction (PI 3-kinase, protein kinases, and SH2 domains).
Dr. Alan Cantor	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Transcription factors in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis
Dr. Harvey Cantor	M.D.	Professor of Pathology	DFCI	IMM		T lymphocytes: development and function.
Dr. William Carlezon	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	MCL	NSCI		To establish causal relationships between gene expression in the brain and motivated behavior.
Dr. Charles Carpenter	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM		Immunomodulation; transplantation biology.
Dr. Michael Carroll	Ph.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	CBR	IMM	BBS	Understanding how complement regulates B cell response and tolerance.
Dr. Constance Cepko	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS	NSCI, VIR	Molecular approaches to developmental neurobiology, using retroviral vectors for gene transfer. (VIR ) Cell fate determination in the vertebrate CNS. (BBS)
Dr. Joanne Chan	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Surgery	CH	BBS		Dissection of Angiogenic Signaling in Zebrafish
Dr. Chinfei Chen	Ph.D., M.D.	Assistant Professor of Neurology	CH	NSCI		Synaptic plasticity in the CNS using electrophysiological and calcium imaging techniques, as well as genetically altered mouse strains.
Dr. Dong Chen	Ph.D., M.D.	Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology	SERI	NSCI		Molecular mechanisms that control neuronal differentiation, nerve growth and regeneration in the mammalian brain and retina.
Dr. Zheng-Yi Chen	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Neurology	MGH	NSCI		Identification of genes and functional pathways that govern the development, function and disease state of the inner ear.
Dr. Andrew Chess	M.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	MGH	BBS		Genetics, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology, Chromatin
Dr. Kenneth Chien	M.D., Ph.D.	Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Professor of Basic Science	MGH	BBS		Cardiovascular Stem Cells in Development and Disease.
Dr. James Chou	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Protein NMR spectroscopy of membrane protein.
Dr. George Church	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS		Mammalian and bacterial chromosomes and genomes; DNA-protein interactions and sequencing technology.
Dr. Karen Cichowski	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Combining genetic and biochemical approaches to dissect tumor suppressor gene function.
Dr. David Clapham	Ph.D., M.D.	Aldo R. Castaneda Professor of Cardiovascular Research	CH	NSCI	BBS	Investigation of receptors, G proteins, ion channels, and intracellular calcium.
Dr. Jon Clardy	Ph.D.	Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Biologically Active Small Molecules
Dr. Donald Coen	Ph.D.	Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS	VIR	Molecular analyses of herpes viruses, stressing regulation of gene expression, DNA polymerase mechanisms, antiviral drug targets and viral latency.
Dr. David Cohen	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine & Health Sciences and Technology	BWH	BBS		Mechanisms of Hepatic Cholesterol Elimination
Dr. Jonathan Cohen	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI	BBS	Structure and function of ligand-gated ion channels.
Dr. Monica Colaiacovo	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Genetics	NRB	BBS		Research on mechanisms underlying meiotic chromosome segregation.
Dr. R. John Collier	Ph.D.	Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS		Protein structure and function; bacterial exotoxins; protein-membrane interactions.
Dr. David Corey	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Physiology and cell biology of transduction and adaptation in the inner ear.
Dr. Gabriel Corfas	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Neurology	CH	NSCI	BBS	Molecular mechanisms of neuron - glia interactions and neuronal migration.
Dr. Douglas Cotanche	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology	CH	NSCI		Hair cell regeneration in the avian cochlea; development of the cochlear sensory epithelium
Dr. Chad Cowan		Lecturer on Medicine		BBS
Dr. Clyde Crumpacker, II	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	VIR		Structure and function of herpesvirus DNA polymerase and the HIV reverse transcriptase; resistance to antiviral drugs in clinical viral isolates and mechanisms of resistance and pathogenesis.
Dr. James Cunningham	M.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics)	BWH	VIR		Host-retrovirus interactions, retrovirus entry and assembly.
Dr. Gary Curhan	SC.D., M.D	Associate Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS
Dr. Charles Czeisler	M.D., Ph.D.	Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Sleep Medicine	BWH	NSCI		The neurobiology of the human circadian pacemaker and its entrainment via retinohypothalamic photic input.