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Kelly Wrighton
Kelly C. Wrighton is an American environmental microbiologist and Colorado State University professor known for genome-resolved metagenomics and for showing methane is produced in oxygenated soils.
Kelsey C. Martin
Kelsey C. Martin, also known as Kelsey Martin, is an American neuroscientist who studies how experience alters connections between neurons, and dean of UCLA's medical school from 2015 to 2021.
Ken A. Dill
Ken A. Dill is an American biophysicist known for the funnel theory of protein folding and the HP lattice model, and a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University.
Ken Inoki
Ken Inoki is a Japanese-born molecular biologist and physician-scientist at the University of Michigan whose 2002 to 2006 papers showed how TSC2 integrates growth-factor, energy, and Wnt signals to regulate mTORC1.
Ken Jacobson
Ken Jacobson, full name Kenneth A. Jacobson, was a cell biologist and biophysicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill best known for developing FRAP.
Ken Shirasu
Ken Shirasu (白須 賢) is a Japanese plant immunologist who has led the Plant Immunity Research Group at RIKEN since 2006 and became Deputy Director of RIKEN CSRS in 2020.
Ken Shortman
Ken Shortman, born 1937 in Sydney, is an Australian immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, known for T-cell development and establishing discrete dendritic cell subpopulations.
Kendal Broadie
Kendal Broadie, born 1966, is an American neuroscientist and the Eldon Stevenson Jr. Professor of Neurobiology at Vanderbilt University, known for fruit fly studies of synapses and Fragile X syndrome.
Kendall A. Smith
Kendall A. Smith, also known as Kendall Smith, is an American immunologist who identified and characterized interleukin-2 and its receptor, becoming Professor Emeritus at Weill Cornell in 2020.
Kenichi Yoshikawa
Kenichi Yoshikawa (吉川研一) is a Japanese biological physicist known for single-molecule studies of the coil–globule transition of giant DNA, and a professor at Doshisha University.
Kenji Kangawa
Kenji Kangawa (寒川 賢治) is a Japanese biochemist and endocrinologist known for discovering the natriuretic peptide heart hormones and ghrelin, the appetite hormone, and for winning the 2008 Japan Academy Prize.
Kenn Gerdes
Kenn Gerdes is a Danish microbiologist and retired professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for discovering post-segregational killing and for his work on bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems and antibiotic persistence.
Kenneth A. Johnson
Kenneth A. Johnson is an American biochemist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for defining reaction pathways of molecular motors and polymerases by transient-state kinetics.
Kenneth B. Marcu
Kenneth B. Marcu, also published as K.B. Marcu, is a molecular biologist known for work on the c-myc oncogene and immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes, and a Stony Brook professor emeritus.
Kenneth B. Raper
Kenneth B. Raper (Kenneth Bryan Raper, 1908-1987), American mycologist; NRRL Peoria penicillin team member, co-author of the Aspergilli and Penicillia manuals, and discoverer of Dictyostelium discoideum (1935); UW-Madison professor.
Kenneth Berns
Kenneth Ira Berns (1938–2024) was an American virologist who spent 45 years working out the molecular biology of adeno-associated virus, whose findings became the foundation for AAV gene therapy vectors.
Kenneth Birnbaum
Kenneth D. Birnbaum is a plant developmental biologist at New York University known for single-cell transcriptomics of plant roots and for showing how roots regenerate stem cells.
Kenneth Bryan Raper
Kenneth Bryan Raper (1908–1987) was an American mycologist who named and pioneered the study of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum and led USDA penicillin production research during World War II.
Kenneth D. Irvine
Kenneth D. Irvine is a cell and developmental biologist at Rutgers University known for identifying the Fringe signaling molecule and for linking cytoskeletal tension to Hippo signaling.
Kenneth D. Roeder
Kenneth D. Roeder (1908–1979) was an English-born insect physiologist at Tufts University, a founding figure of American insect physiology and a pioneer of neuroethology, best known for showing how noctuid moths hear bats.
Kenneth D. Tartof
Kenneth D. Tartof is a molecular geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia known for Drosophila work on ribosomal RNA genes, position-effect variegation, and trans-sensing effects.
Kenneth H. Gabbay
Kenneth H. Gabbay is a physician-scientist in diabetes research at Baylor College of Medicine, known for work on glycosylated hemoglobin, the sorbitol pathway, and aldose reductase.
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson is an environmental microbiologist and geobiologist known for discovering quorum sensing and extracellular electron transfer, and for his astrobiology work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and USC.
Kenneth H. Wolfe
Kenneth H. Wolfe is an Irish geneticist and Professor of Genomic Evolution at University College Dublin, best known for discovering an ancient whole-genome duplication in baker's yeast.
Kenneth J. Kemphues
Kenneth J. Kemphues (born 1950) is an American developmental biologist and geneticist, professor emeritus at Cornell University, best known for discovering the par genes and PAR proteins.
Kenneth J. Marians
Kenneth J. Marians is an American molecular biologist who holds the William E. Snee Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for work on replication fork restart and DNA topology.
Kenneth J. Rothschild
Kenneth J. Rothschild is an American biophysicist and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Boston University, known for FTIR difference spectroscopy of rhodopsins and for founding AmberGen.
Kenneth K. Kídd
Kenneth K. Kidd is an American human geneticist at Yale University known for human population genetics, forensic DNA typing, and building ALFRED, the ALlele FREquency Database.
Kenneth Keegstra
Kenneth Keegstra, born 1945, is an American plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for defining how proteins are imported into chloroplasts and for plant cell wall biosynthesis.
Kenneth L. Melmon
Kenneth L. Melmon was a Stanford clinical pharmacologist who chaired the department of medicine and showed that histamine acts as an immunoregulator on human T lymphocytes.