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Jyoti R. Misra

Jyoti R. Misra is an American biologist known for defining the CncC/Nrf2–Keap1 detoxification pathway in fruit flies and for work on Fat signaling in the Hippo pathway.

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. Heran Darwin

K. Heran Darwin (혜란 다윈) is an American microbiologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for her work on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteasome and Pup.

K. VijayRaghavan

K. VijayRaghavan is an Indian developmental biologist who studies muscle and nerve development in fruit flies and was India's Principal Scientific Adviser from 2018 to 2022.

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.

Kaan Boztug

Kaan Boztug (born 1977 in Eregli, Turkey) is an Austrian-based physician-scientist in immunology known for discovering more than 20 previously unknown immune diseases and developing stem-cell gene therapy for primary immunodeficiencies.

Kai G. Zinn

Kai G. Zinn, also published as Kai Zinn, is a molecular biologist at Caltech whose lab maps interactions among human and Drosophila cell surface proteins.

Kai Johnsson

Kai Johnsson, born 1963, is a German and Swiss chemical biologist directing the Department of Chemical Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg since 2017.

Kai Wucherpfennig

Kai Wucherpfennig is a German-trained cancer immunologist who has led cancer immunology research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 1995, studying T cell and NK cell responses to tumors.

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.

Kalanit Grill-Spector

Kalanit Grill-Spector is a cognitive neuroscientist, the Hindle Professor at Stanford University, known for research on how face recognition and visual cortex develop from childhood to adulthood.

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.

Kami Ahmad

Kami Ahmad is a molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who studies chromatin and epigenetics and helped develop the CUT&Tag and RT&Tag methods.

Kang Shen

Kang Shen is a Stanford neuroscientist and HHMI investigator who studies how neurons assemble precise synaptic connections in the nematode C. elegans, developing tools like GRASP.

Kaoru Inokuchi

Kaoru Inokuchi (井ノ口 馨) is a Japanese neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Toyama known for work on memory engrams and synapse-specific memory storage.

Kaoru Saigo

Kaoru Saigo (西郷 薫) is a Japanese molecular biologist who showed in 1984 that a Drosophila transposable element resembles retroviruses, and later worked on siRNA design.

Kapil N. Bhalla

Kapil N. Bhalla is a cancer researcher at MD Anderson known for epigenetic therapy of blood cancers, especially histone deacetylase inhibitors for acute myeloid leukemia.

Kareem A. Zaghloul

Kareem A. Zaghloul is a neurosurgeon-researcher who led the Functional Neurosurgery Section at NINDS, known for showing that human memory retrieval replays the brain's original neural firing sequences.

Karel Ježek

Karel Ježek, born 1973, is a Czech physician and neuroscientist at Charles University's Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, known for work on hippocampal place-cell maps and Alzheimer's models.

Karel Svoboda (neuroscientist)

Karel Svoboda (born 1965) is a Czech-born American neuroscientist who pioneered two-photon imaging of synapses in the living brain, shared the 2015 Brain Prize, and leads the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics in Seattle.

Karen Adelman

Karen Adelman is a molecular biologist and Harvard Medical School professor whose lab showed that pausing of RNA polymerase II is a central regulatory step in gene expression.

Karen Artzt

Karen Artzt is an American molecular biologist who genetically mapped the mouse T/t complex and is Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.

Karen B. Strier

Karen B. Strier is an American primatologist and biological anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for her field study of the critically endangered northern muriqui in Brazil since 1982.

Karen G. Lloyd

Karen G. Lloyd is an American microbial biogeochemist who studies bacteria and archaea deep beneath Earth's surface, and since 2024 a professor at the University of Southern California.

Karen Hibbard

Karen Hibbard is a Drosophila neuroscientist and Research Specialist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for building genome-scale RNAi resources and studying how learned odors steer flies.

Karen Hsiao

Karen Hsiao, also known as Karen Hsiao Ashe, is a neuroscientist and physician at the University of Minnesota who created the Tg2576 transgenic mouse, a widely used Alzheimer's disease model.

Karen L Schulze

Karen L Schulze is a Drosophila geneticist who co-created public fruit fly resources, including the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project disruption collection and the MiMIC and T2A-GAL4 tagging libraries.

Karen M. Vásquez

Karen M. Vásquez, also published as Karen M. Vasquez, is a molecular biologist and pharmacologist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies genome instability and DNA repair.

Karen U. Sprague

Karen U. Sprague is a molecular biologist who spent her career at the University of Oregon, studying how flanking DNA sequences control silkworm tRNA gene transcription.