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Kimberly Nixon
Kimberly Nixon is a neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas at Austin, known for discovering alcohol's inhibitory effect on adult neurogenesis and receiving a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.
Kimberly Prather
Kimberly Prather is an American atmospheric chemist at UC San Diego who invented aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry and became an international leader on airborne virus transmission during COVID-19.
Kimio Akagawa
Kimio Akagawa (赤川 公朗) is a Japanese neurophysiologist named by the 2013 Nobel Assembly among prior identifiers of the SNARE proteins; he cloned HPC-1, later shown to be syntaxin 1A.
Kimishige Ishizaka
Kimishige Ishizaka (石坂公成, 1925–2018) was a Japanese-born immunologist who, working with his wife Teruko, discovered immunoglobulin E in 1966, the antibody class that carries allergic reactivity, and later led the La Jolla Institute.
King‐Wai Yau
King-Wai Yau is a Chinese-born neuroscientist, professor at Johns Hopkins since 1986, known for solving phototransduction in rods and cones and for studying photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
Kirill A. Afonin
Kirill A. Afonin is a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who designs RNA and DNA nanoparticles for drug delivery and immune modulation.
Kirill A. Martemyanov
Kirill Martemyanov is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist known for mapping RGS protein regulation of GPCR signaling and identifying GPR158 as the first metabotropic glycine receptor.
Kirk Deitsch
Kirk W. Deitsch is a molecular biologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for studying how the malaria parasite evades the immune system.
Kit D Longden
Kit D Longden (Kit Christopher Longden) is a computational and systems neuroscientist who studies how fruit flies see color, now a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi is an NIH Distinguished Investigator who leads the Genetic Mechanisms Section at NIDDK, known for reconstituting bacteriophage Mu transposition in vitro and for discovering DNA gyrase.
Kiyoshi Nagai
Kiyoshi Nagai (1949–2019) was a Japanese structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who determined the first near-atomic cryo-EM structures of the spliceosome.
Kiyoshi Takeda
Kiyoshi Takeda (竹田潔) is a Japanese immunologist, professor at Osaka University and director of its Immunology Frontier Research Center, known for defining Toll-like receptor signaling pathways.
Kıvanç Birsoy
Kıvanç Birsoy is a Turkish-born cancer biologist who heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University, known for discovering that the mitochondrial electron transport chain supports cell proliferation through aspartate synthesis.
Klaus Eichmann
Klaus Eichmann, born 1939 in Kassel, is a German immunologist who showed antibody idiotype specificity is inherited through heavy-chain-linked genes, and directed the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg from 1981 to 2004.
Klaus Hahlbrock (molecular biologist)
Klaus Hahlbrock is a German plant molecular biologist known for work on how plants activate defense genes against UV light and fungal attack, and on phenylpropanoid metabolism.
Klaus M. Hahn
Klaus M. Hahn is an American cell biologist and Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for fluorescent biosensors and optogenetic tools like photoactivatable Rac1.
Klaus Mosbach
Klaus Mosbach (1932–2024) was a Swedish biochemist and professor at Lund University, known for developing molecular imprinting and antibody mimics, including his 1993 Nature drug assay paper.
Klaus Palme
Klaus Palme, born 1951, is a German plant biologist at the University of Freiburg whose research established how the PIN carriers transport the hormone auxin between cells.
Klaus Patau
Klaus Patau (1908–1975) was a German-born American geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose team first linked an extra chromosome 13 to Patau syndrome in 1960.
Klaus Peter Hofmann
Klaus Peter Hofmann (1943–2024) was a German biochemist and biophysicist whose pioneering research on the visual pigment rhodopsin shaped understanding of signal transmission in cell membranes and drug development.
Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten (1947–2016) was a German-born computational biophysicist who pioneered the "computational microscope" approach and led the Illinois group that developed the widely used NAMD and VMD programs.
Klaus‐Armin Nave
Klaus-Armin Nave is a German neuroscientist who studies myelin biology and neuron-glia interactions, directing the Department of Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen from 1999 to 2021.
Knud H. Nierhaus
Knud H. Nierhaus (1941–2016) was a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, known for reconstituting the 50S ribosomal subunit and discovering the E site.
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915–2007) was a Norwegian-born American comparative physiologist at Duke University, best known for showing how camels survive the desert and for the leading textbook Animal Physiology.
Ko Okumura
Ko Okumura (奥村康, born 1942) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Juntendo University School of Medicine, known for his 1988 Nature paper linking perforin to complement C9.
Ko Shimamoto
Ko Shimamoto (島本功) was a Japanese plant molecular geneticist, professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, known for the first fertile transgenic rice and for identifying florigen receptors.
Kodi S. Ravichandran
Kodi S. Ravichandran is an immunologist who studies efferocytosis, the removal of dying cells, and leads the Division of Immunobiology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Koichiro Tsunewaki
Koichiro Tsunewaki (1930–2022) was a Japanese plant geneticist and Kyoto University professor who classified wheat cytoplasms and pinpointed common wheat's origin near the Caspian Sea.
Kōichirō Tsunewaki
Kōichirō Tsunewaki (常脇恒一郎, 1930–2022) was a Japanese plant geneticist, a Kyoto University professor and Japan Academy member known for plasmon analysis that traced wheat's maternal lineages and located common wheat's origin near the Caspian Sea.
Koji Kimata
Koji Kimata (木全 弘治) is a Japanese cell biologist and glycobiologist known for expression-cloning a eukaryotic hyaluronan synthase and showing the three mammalian HAS isoforms differ enzymatically.