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Kazutaka Katoh

Kazutaka Katoh (加藤 和貴) is a Japanese computational biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo, known for developing the widely used MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program.

Kazutoshi Mori

Kazutoshi Mori (森和俊, born 1958) is a Japanese cell biologist who discovered the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system, and shared the 2014 Lasker Award.

Kazuyuki Sugahara

Kazuyuki Sugahara (菅原一幸) is a Japanese biochemist known for his work on glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis, including the 2001 cloning of human chondroitin synthase, who held professorships at Kobe Pharmaceutical and Hokkaido Universities.

Ke Shuai

Ke Shuai is a professor of hematology-oncology and biological chemistry at UCLA who helped establish the JAK–STAT signaling pathway and studies PIAS proteins that restrain inflammation and immunity.

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.

Kees Moeliker

Kees Moeliker is a Dutch biologist and former director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam who won the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for a paper on mallard necrophilia.

Keffer Hartline

Keffer Hartline, full name Haldan Keffer Hartline, was an American physiologist who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the neurophysiology of vision.

Kei Sato

Kei Sato (佐藤 佳) is a Japanese virologist and professor of systems virology at the University of Tokyo, known for characterizing SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron.

Keiichi Fukuda

Keiichi Fukuda (福田恵一) is a Japanese cardiovascular scientist and regenerative medicine researcher, professor emeritus at Keio University who founded the iPS cell heart therapy company Heartseed.

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.

Keiji Tanaka

Keiji Tanaka (田中啓二; 1949–2024) was a Japanese molecular biologist who discovered and characterized the proteasome, the cell's protein-degrading machinery, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, winning the Japan Academy Prize.

Keiko Ozato

Keiko Ozato is a senior investigator in immunology at NIH's NICHD, where she has led the Section on Molecular Genetics of Immunity for over 30 years and discovered IRF8.

Keiko U. Torii

Keiko U. Torii (鳥居 啓子) is a plant developmental biologist known for her work on stomatal patterning and ERECTA receptor kinase signaling, and an HHMI investigator at UT Austin.

Keith A. Joiner

Keith A. Joiner is an American immunologist and parasitologist known for showing how Toxoplasma gondii survives inside human cells, and later a health economist at the University of Arizona.

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 Burridge

Keith Burridge is a British-born cell biologist known for discovering focal adhesion proteins such as talin and paxillin and for showing how RhoA drives their assembly.

Keith Caldecott

Keith W. Caldecott is a British biochemist and Royal Society Fellow at the University of Sussex who studies DNA single-strand break repair and linked hereditary neurodegenerative diseases.

Keith Campbell (biologist)

Keith Campbell, full name Keith Henry Stockman Campbell, was a British cell biologist whose cell-cycle insight made Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, possible.

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.

Keith E. Mostov

Keith E. Mostov, also cited as Keith Mostov, is an American cell biologist and Professor of Anatomy at UCSF known for defining how epithelial cells sort their membrane proteins.

Keith Gull

Keith Gull (born 1948) is a British parasitologist and Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Oxford whose research defined the cell biology of trypanosomes, the parasites that cause sleeping sickness.

Keith Matthews (parasitologist)

Keith R. Matthews is a University of Edinburgh professor of parasite biology known for discovering quorum sensing in African trypanosomes and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2020.

Keith Moffat

Keith Moffat is a Scottish-born biophysicist and protein crystallographer who came to the University of Chicago in 1990, known for developing time-resolved crystallography and founding the synchrotron facility BioCARS at Argonne.

Keith R. Fox

Keith R. Fox is a British biochemist who spent his career at the University of Southampton, studying DNA sequence recognition, triple helices, and G-quadruplex structures.

Keith R. Porter

Keith R. Porter (1912–1997) was a Canadian-born American cell biologist who took the first detailed electron-microscope image of a cell, named the endoplasmic reticulum, and co-invented the Porter-Blum ultramicrotome.

Keith R. Willison

Keith Robert Willison, born in 1953, is a molecular biologist and Professor of Chemical Biology at Imperial College London, known for discovering the CCT chaperonin that folds actin and tubulin.

Keith R. Yamamoto

Keith R. Yamamoto is an American molecular biologist who spent his career at UCSF studying how steroid receptors regulate gene expression and helped develop precision medicine.

Keji Zhao

Keji Zhao (赵科吉) is a molecular biologist who studies how chromatin structure controls gene expression, leading the Laboratory of Epigenome Biology at the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Kelly A. Frazer

Kelly A. Frazer is an American genomicist and professor at UC San Diego who founded its Division of Genome Information Sciences and directs the Institute for Genomic Medicine.

Kelly Tatchell

Kelly Tatchell is a biochemist and yeast geneticist, professor at LSU Health Shreveport, known for studies of the protein phosphatase PP1 and its GLC7 gene in budding yeast.