9,464 articles
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.
Kári Stefánsson
Kári Stefánsson is an Icelandic physician and human geneticist who founded deCODE genetics in Reykjavik in 1996 and pioneered population-scale genetics to find disease variants.
Karim Labib
Karim Labib is a British cell biologist who holds the Chair of Genome Integrity at the University of Dundee and is known for work on DNA replication.
Karin de Visser
Karin de Visser is a Dutch immuno-oncology researcher at the Netherlands Cancer Institute known for showing how breast cancer reprograms the immune system to drive metastasis.
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 Moelling
Karin Moelling (born 1943) is a German virologist who directed the Institute of Medical Virology at the University of Zurich and is known for work on retroviral oncogenes, RNase H, and HIV.
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.
Karin Schumacher
Karin Schumacher (born 1966) is a German plant cell biologist and professor of plant development biology at Heidelberg University, known for work on the vacuolar H+-ATPase.
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 Albert Hasselbalch
Karl Albert Hasselbalch (1874–1962) was a Danish physiologist and biochemist who created the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation in 1916, co-demonstrated the Bohr effect in 1904, and later led the Royal Danish Agricultural Society.
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is an American neuroscientist and practicing psychiatrist at Stanford University, known for creating optogenetics and hydrogel-tissue chemistry and for sharing the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Karl Drlica
Karl Drlica (born 1943) is an American molecular biologist at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, known for work on DNA gyrase, supercoiling, and fluoroquinolone resistance.
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer, also known as Karl Maksimovich Baer, was a Prussian-Estonian embryologist and naturalist (1792–1876) who discovered the mammalian ovum, described the notochord, and founded comparative embryology.
Karl Everhard Goebel
Karl Everhard Goebel, full name Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel (1855–1932), was a German botanist and leading plant morphologist, professor of botany at Munich from 1891 to 1931.
Karl Friedrich Meyer
Karl Friedrich Meyer (1884–1974) was a Swiss-born American bacteriologist, virologist, and epidemiologist who spent his career at the University of California, setting canning-industry botulism standards and controlling psittacosis.
Karl Friston
Karl John Friston (born 1959) is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at University College London, known for developing the neuroimaging methods SPM, VBM, and DCM, and for originating the free-energy principle.
Karl Habel
Karl Habel (1908–1981) was an American virologist and immunologist who spent nearly 30 years at the National Institutes of Health, developed an improved killed rabies vaccine, and was first to cultivate mumps virus in eggs.
Karl Herrup
Karl Herrup is a neurobiologist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh known for rejecting the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease and for the cell-cycle hypothesis of neuronal death.
Karl Kandler
Karl Kandler is a German-trained neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how auditory brain circuits are wired before hearing begins.
Karl Lenhard Rudolph
Karl Lenhard Rudolph (K. Lenhard Rudolph) is a German physician-scientist in stem cell and aging research, leading a group at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jena.
Karl Maramorosch
Karl Maramorosch (1915–2016) was an American plant pathologist and virologist who showed that some plant pathogens multiply in insect vectors and pioneered insect cell culture, winning the 1980 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
Karl Mark Ansel
Karl Mark Ansel, publishing as K. Mark Ansel, is an immunologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies how RNA regulation shapes T cell responses.
Karl Matter
Karl Matter is a Swiss-trained cell biologist, professor at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology since 2001, known for work on tight junctions and epithelial protein sorting.
Karl Meyer (biochemist)
Karl Meyer (1899–1990) was a German-born American biochemist who spent most of his career at Columbia University, isolated and named hyaluronic acid in 1934, and shared the 1956 Lasker Award.
Karl O. Stetter
Karl O. Stetter is a German microbiologist, born 1941, and professor emeritus at Regensburg who coined "hyperthermophile" and cultivated over 1500 strains of heat-loving microbes.
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist and taxonomist at the Field Museum in Chicago who described over 200 species and died in 1957 after a boomslang snakebite.
Karl Sax
Karl Sax (1892–1973) was an American botanist and cytogeneticist, a National Academy of Sciences member and director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum whose X-ray studies of chromosome aberrations in Tradescantia helped found radiation cytology.
Karl Schmid (biochemist)
Karl Schmid (1920–2009) was a biochemist at Boston University School of Medicine who spent his career on human plasma glycoproteins, above all α1-acid glycoprotein (orosomucoid), first crystallized by him in 1953.
Karl von Frisch
Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) was an Austrian zoologist who decoded the honeybee waggle dance, showing how bees communicate food locations, and shared the 1973 Nobel Prize.