Cornelia "Nina" Channing (1938–1985) was an American professor of physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
She received her bachelor's degree from Hood College in 1961 and her PhD in biochemistry from Harvard Medical School in 1965, advised by Claude Villee.
[2] Channing returned to the US to serve as an instructor and later an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she spent seven years in total.
Channing served on the board of directors of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in 1978-80 and was the recipient of its first Research Award in 1978.
[2] Channing was a close collaborator of endocrinologist Neena Schwartz, whose work on their shared research interests continued after Channing's death; along with other researchers including Darrell Ward, they identified the peptide hormone inhibin and worked out molecular mechanisms of hormonal signaling in the female reproductive cycle.