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Jue Chen
Jue Chen is a Chinese-born American structural biologist and biochemist at The Rockefeller University known for determining the atomic structures of CFTR, the chloride channel mutated in cystic fibrosis, and of ABC transporters.
Juli Feigon
Juli Feigon is an American structural biologist who studies nucleic acid structures and is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at UCLA, known for NMR and cryo-EM structures of telomerase.
Julia Mahamid
Julia Mahamid is a structural biologist who heads the Molecular Systems Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, imaging molecules inside frozen cells by cryo-electron tomography; she won the 2026 Leibniz Prize.
Julio E. Celis
Julio E. Celis is a molecular biologist and biochemist recognized as one of the founding fathers of proteomics, known for protein expression profiles of normal and transformed cells.
Jun Qin (medical researcher)
Jun Qin is a structural and molecular biologist at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute, known since his 2002 Cell paper for structural work on integrin inside-out activation.
Jun Qin (molecular biologist)
Jun Qin is a molecular biologist and mass-spectrometry proteomics researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, known for co-leading the 2011 Cell study that mapped the human endogenous coregulator complexome.
Junji Iwahara
Junji Iwahara is a biophysical chemist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, known for using NMR spectroscopy to study how proteins scan DNA.
Junjie Hu (胡俊杰)
Junjie Hu (胡俊杰) is a Chinese cell biologist who studies how the endoplasmic reticulum takes shape, leading a lab at the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing.
Jürgen Popp
Jürgen Popp (born 1966 in Dinkelsbühl) is a German physical chemist who develops Raman-based, label-free optical diagnostics, leading the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena since 2006.
K. E. van Holde
K. E. van Holde, or Kensal Edward van Holde, was an American biochemist at Oregon State University best known for describing the nucleosome core particle and chromatin structure.
K.V. Rajagopalan
K.V. Rajagopalan is an Indian-born American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University, whose laboratory discovered molybdopterin, the organic part of the molybdenum cofactor.
Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang
Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang (1896–1959) was a Danish biochemist who led the Carlsberg Laboratory's Chemical Division and introduced the primary, secondary, and tertiary description of protein structure.
Kalle Gehring
Kalle Gehring is a Canadian structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at McGill University who uses NMR spectroscopy and crystallography to determine protein and DNA structures, including parkin.
Kamala Sohonie
Kamala Sohonie (Kamala Bhagvat, 1911–1998), Indian biochemist; first Indian woman PhD in science (Cambridge, 1939); discovered cytochrome c in plant cells; led Royal Institute of Science, Mumbai; Rashtrapati Award for Neera nutrition research.
Kari I. Kivirikko
Kari I. Kivirikko, born 1937 in Helsinki, is a Finnish biochemist at the University of Oulu who established the enzymology of collagen biosynthesis and linked it to the hypoxia response.
Karin M. Reinisch
Karin M. Reinisch is a structural biologist and David W. Wallace Professor at Yale School of Medicine known for discovering bridge-like proteins that transport lipids between organelle membranes.
Karin Musier‐Forsyth
Karin Musier-Forsyth is an American biochemist who studies aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and HIV-1 RNA packaging, and directs the Center for RNA Biology at Ohio State University.
Karissa Sanbonmatsu
Karissa Sanbonmatsu is an American structural and computational biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies ribosomes, riboswitches, and long non-coding RNAs using supercomputer simulations.
Karl A. Piez
Karl A. Piez (1924–2006) was an American biochemist at the National Institute of Dental Research, NIH, who spent his career working out the chemistry and structure of collagen.
Karl-Peter Hopfner
Karl-Peter Hopfner, born 1968, is a German structural biologist and biochemist who directs the Gene Center at LMU Munich and studies DNA repair enzymes and chromatin remodelers.
Karolin Luger
Karolin Luger is an Austrian-born biochemist and structural biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, best known as lead author of the 1997 crystal structure of the nucleosome.
Kaspar Locher
Kaspar P. Locher is a structural biologist and Professor of Molecular Membrane Biology at ETH Zurich who determined the first ABC transporter crystal structure in 2002.
Katalin Karikó
Katalin Karikó (Karikó Katalin), Hungarian-American biochemist born 1955 in Szolnok; with Drew Weissman showed nucleoside-modified mRNA evades immune detection, enabling BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Katrin Rittinger
Katrin Rittinger is a structural biologist who leads the Molecular Structure of Cell Signalling Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, studying ubiquitin-dependent signaling and small GTPases; she was elected an EMBO member in 2019.
Kazimierz B. Gromadski
Kazimierz B. Gromadski, also known as Kirill B. Gromadski, is a biochemist at the University of Witten/Herdecke who measured how the ribosome selects correct tRNAs.
Kazuhiko Nakatani
Kazuhiko Nakatani (中谷一彦) is a Japanese chemical biologist, professor at Osaka University from 2005, known for small molecules that bind mismatched DNA and repeat sequences linked to disease.
Ke Xu
Ke Xu, born 1982, is a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who develops super-resolution microscopy and single-molecule tracking methods for living cells.
Keiichi Namba
Keiichi Namba (難波啓一) is a Japanese structural biologist and biophysicist at Osaka University who solved the first atomic structures of macromolecular assemblies without crystallization, winning the 2012 Japan Academy Prize.
Keith Brew
Keith Brew is a biochemist who proposed α-lactalbumin and lysozyme arose from a duplicated gene, determined transferrin's structure, and studied TIMP metalloproteinase inhibitors for decades.
Keith D. Wilkinson
Keith D. Wilkinson is an American biochemist at Emory University who showed in 1980 that APF-1 is ubiquitin, then became known for his work on deubiquitinating enzymes.