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Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902) was a Baltic German anatomist whose name survives in the Kupffer cell, the liver's resident macrophage, though he misidentified the cells he described in 1876.
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.
Karl‐Heinz Klempnauer
Karl-Heinz Klempnauer is a German molecular biologist known for his work on the myb oncogene, and was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Münster from 1997 to 2022.
Karla A. Kirkegaard
Karla A. Kirkegaard (born 1954) is a virologist who studies positive-strand RNA viruses, known for establishing the copy-choice mechanism of RNA virus recombination in poliovirus.
Karla Neugebauer
Karla M. Neugebauer is an RNA biologist at Yale University, where she directs the Center for RNA Science and Biomedicine and studies how RNA splicing is coordinated with transcription.
Karlene A. Cimprich
Karlene A. Cimprich is an American cancer biologist who is Professor and Chair of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford, studying genome stability during DNA replication.
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.
Karolina Mukhtar
Karolina Mukhtar, also publishing as Karolina M. Pajerowska-Mukhtar, is a plant biologist who led UAB's biology department, won the 2019 PECASE award, and moved to Clemson University in 2024.
Karolina Palucka
Karolina Palucka is an immunologist and cancer researcher who pioneered dendritic cell vaccines for cancer, directs the JAX Cancer Center, and joined the Jackson Laboratory in 2014.
Karsten Weis
Karsten Weis is a molecular cell biologist and Professor of Cellular Dynamics at ETH Zurich who studies nucleocytoplasmic transport, mRNA export and degradation, and phase separation.
Karsten Zengler
Karsten Zengler is a German-trained microbiologist and systems biologist, Professor of Pediatrics at UC San Diego, known for community systems biology and the 1999 Nature methane paper.
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.
Kaspar Podgorski
Kaspar Podgorski is a neuroscientist and instrument engineer who leads the optophysiology lab at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics in Seattle, known for brain-activity imaging tools.
Kassandra Ori-McKenney
Kassandra Ori-McKenney is an American cell biologist and associate professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies microtubules in neurons and received a 2025 PECASE award.
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.
Kate Meyer
Kate Meyer, also known as Kate D. Meyer, is an American RNA biologist and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University known for mapping m6A RNA methylation.
Kate Schroder
Kate Schroder is an Australian molecular immunologist who heads the Inflammasome Laboratory at the University of Queensland, studying inflammasomes and drugs that switch them off.
Katharina Eichler
Katharina Eichler is a Drosophila connectomics researcher and group leader at Leipzig University since 2023, known for the larval mushroom body connectome and the 2024 adult fly brain wiring diagram.
Katharine C Abruzzi
Katharine C Abruzzi, also known as Katharine Boyer Compton Abruzzi, is an American Drosophila neurogeneticist at Brandeis University known for the TRIBE method and fly clock neuron research.
Katherine A. Hajjar
Katherine A. Hajjar is an American pediatric hematologist and vascular biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for identifying annexin A2 as the receptor that initiates fibrinolysis.
Katherine A. High
Katherine A. High (Katherine Ann High) is an American physician-scientist who established AAV gene therapy for hemophilia and inherited blindness, and co-founded Spark Therapeutics, which brought Luxturna to market.
Katherine Ann Lefebvre
Katherine Ann Lefebvre, known as Kathi, is a Supervisory Research Biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center who studies harmful algal bloom toxins and received a PECASE award.
Katherine Esau
Katherine Esau (1898–1997) was an American botanist, a leading twentieth-century plant anatomist known for the textbook Plant Anatomy and decades of research on phloem, the tissue transporting food in plants.
Katherine Fitzgerald
Katherine A. Fitzgerald is an Irish-born immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School whose research defines how the innate immune system detects pathogens and regulates inflammation.
Katherine Kedzierska
Katherine Kedzierska is an Australian viral immunologist who heads the Human T cell Laboratory at the Peter Doherty Institute and University of Melbourne, known for work on T-cell immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2.
Katherine King
Katherine King, or Katherine Yudeh King, is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician scientist at Baylor College of Medicine known for studying how infection affects blood stem cells.
Katherine L. Nathanson
Katherine L. Nathanson is an American physician-scientist in cancer genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is Deputy Director of the Abramson Cancer Center.
Katherine L. Wilson
Katherine L. Wilson, known as Kathy Wilson, is an American cell biologist and Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins, known for research on the nuclear envelope and lamins.
Katherine Luzuriaga
Katherine Luzuriaga is a pediatrician and virologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for clinical trials of very early antiretroviral therapy in infants with HIV-1 infection.
Katherine Radek
Katherine Radek is an American researcher of skin innate immunity and the urinary microbiome at Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine, awarded the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.