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Katherine Rauen
Katherine Rauen is an American medical geneticist who coined the term "RASopathies" for Ras/MAPK pathway syndromes, founded the NF/Ras Pathway Clinic at UCSF, and received the 2012 PECASE award.
Katherine Woollett
Katherine Woollett is a neuroscientist at UCL's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging whose 2011 study showed London taxi trainees' hippocampi grew during training, cited by the 2014 Nobel Committee.
Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins is an American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley known for defining the composition, function, and structure of telomerase and for engineering retroelement proteins for genome editing.
Kathleen H. Burns
Kathleen H. Burns is an American cancer geneticist and pathologist who chairs the Department of Pathology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and studies transposable elements in cancer.
Kathleen L. Gould
Kathleen L. Gould is an American cell biologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for her 1989 finding that tyrosine phosphorylation of Cdc2 regulates entry into mitosis.
Kathleen Loretta Collins
Kathleen Loretta Collins is an American physician-scientist and University of Michigan professor known for showing how HIV's Nef protein hides infected cells from immune attack.
Kathrin Plath
Kathrin Plath is a German-born American epigeneticist and Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA whose laboratory studies how the RNA Xist silences the X chromosome and the epigenetics of induced pluripotent stem cells.
Kathryn Calame
Kathryn L. Calame is an American immunologist and molecular biologist who spent most of her career at Columbia University, known for discovering the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer and identifying Blimp-1.
Kathryn Holt
Kathryn E. Holt is a computational biologist who studies how bacterial pathogens evolve and spread, and has been Professor of Microbial Systems Genomics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 2018.
Kathryn V. Anderson
Kathryn V. Anderson (1952–2020) was an American developmental geneticist who showed that the Toll gene patterns the fruit fly body axis, work later linked to innate immunity.
Kathy Pritchard‐Jones
Kathy Pritchard-Jones is a British pediatric oncologist and emeritus professor at UCL, known for research on Wilms' tumour and for leading the International Society of Paediatric Oncology.
Katie Hinde
Katie Hinde, also known as Katherine Hinde, is an American scientist studying mother's milk as food, medicine, and signal, and founder of March Mammal Madness.
Katie Kindt
Katie Kindt is an American hair-cell neurobiologist who leads the Section on Sensory Cell Development and Function at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH.
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.
Katrina Akassoglou
Katrina Akassoglou, known professionally as Katerina Akassoglou, is a Greek-born neuroimmunologist, Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Professor of Neurology at UCSF, known for identifying fibrinogen as a driver of neuroinflammation.
Katsuhiko Hayashi
Katsuhiko Hayashi (林 克彦) is a Japanese developmental biologist and professor at Osaka University, a pioneer of in vitro gametogenesis who made eggs from male mouse cells in 2023.
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba (御子柴 克彦) is a Japanese neuroscientist known for identifying and cloning the IP3 receptor, the channel that releases calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum.
Kausik Si
Kausik Si is an Indian-born neuroscientist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, known for showing that prion-like protein aggregation serves memory storage in the brain.
Kay E. Davies
Dame Kay E. Davies, born 1951 in Stourbridge, is a British human molecular geneticist and Oxford professor known for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research, fragile X genetics, and utrophin-based therapy.
Kay Tanaka
Kay Tanaka is a clinical biochemist at Yale University who described isovaleric acidemia, explained the biochemistry of Jamaican vomiting sickness, and established the acyl-CoA dehydrogenase enzyme family.
Kay Tye
Kay M. Tye is an American systems neuroscientist known for pioneering projection-specific optogenetics to study emotion and motivation. She has been a professor and Wylie Vale Chair at the Salk Institute since 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.
Kazuhiko Umesono
Kazuhiko Umesono (梅園和彦) was a Japanese molecular biologist who, working in Ronald Evans's Salk Institute laboratory, discovered the 3-4-5 rule for nuclear hormone receptor DNA recognition.
Kazuhiro Nakamura
Kazuhiro Nakamura (中村和弘) is a Japanese neuroscientist and professor at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine known for identifying the hypothalamic neural circuits that control body temperature and fever.
Kazuki Saito (plant biochemist)
Kazuki Saito (齊藤和季) is a Japanese plant biochemist and metabolomics researcher who developed phytochemical genomics, combining genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, and is Executive Director of Science at RIKEN.
Kazuko Nishikura
Kazuko Nishikura is a Japanese-born molecular biologist and professor at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, known for discovering A-to-I RNA editing and characterizing the ADAR enzyme family.
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (篠崎 和子, born 1954) is a Japanese plant molecular biologist who discovered the DRE element and DREB transcription factors, key to drought tolerance in crops.
Kazuo Shinozaki
Kazuo Shinozaki, born in 1949, is a Japanese plant molecular biologist at RIKEN who discovered the major gene-regulatory systems governing plant drought response and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Kazushige Touhara
Kazushige Touhara (東原 和成) is a Japanese sensory neuroscientist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for discovering the mouse pheromone ESP1 and showing insect olfactory receptors are ion channels.