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Kôji Uchida

Kôji Uchida (内田 浩二) is a Japanese food chemist and redox biologist, a Project Professor at the University of Tokyo who studies protein modification in aging and inflammation.

Kole T. Roybal

Kole T. Roybal is an American immunologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for engineering synthetic Notch receptors that give T cells customized therapeutic response programs.

Konrad Basler

Konrad Basler, born 1960, is a Swiss developmental biologist and professor at the University of Zurich who studies Wnt and Hedgehog signaling, from Drosophila development to colorectal cancer.

Konrad Bloch

Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-born American biochemist at Harvard University who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

Konrad Hochedlinger

Konrad Hochedlinger is an Austrian-born stem cell biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for his work on nuclear reprogramming and iPS cells.

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (1903–1989) was an Austrian zoologist and ethologist who, with Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch, founded ethology, winning the 1973 Nobel Prize.

Konrad P. Kording

Konrad P. Kording is a computational neuroscientist and PIK professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2017, known for Bayesian models of sensorimotor learning and co-founding Neuromatch.

Konstantin Severinov

Konstantin Severinov (Северинов Константин Викторович) is a Russian-American molecular biologist known for studies of bacterial RNA polymerase and CRISPR-Cas systems at Rutgers University and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Konstantina M. Stanković

Konstantina M. Stanković is an American otolaryngologist and auditory neuroscientist who became chair of otolaryngology at Stanford in 2021, researching gene therapy and other approaches to hearing restoration.

Konstantinos Konstantopoulos

Konstantinos Konstantopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Κωνσταντόπουλος) is a Greek-American cell biologist and bioengineer at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds the inaugural William H. Schwarz Professorship and studies cancer metastasis.

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, often published as Kostas T. Konstantinidis, is a microbial genomics researcher at Georgia Tech who proposed average nucleotide identity for defining bacterial species.

Koreaki Ito

Koreaki Ito (伊藤 維昭) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Kyoto Sangyo University known for work on protein export, disulfide bond formation, and translation in E. coli.

Kosaku Uyeda

Kosaku Uyeda is a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who discovered fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, a potent activator of glycolysis, and ChREBP.

Kosuke Morikawa

Kosuke Morikawa is a Japanese structural biochemist trained at the University of Tokyo, known for crystal structures of the RuvC resolvase and T4 endonuclease V.

Kozo Kaibuchi

Kozo Kaibuchi (貝淵 弘三) is a Japanese molecular biologist and biochemist known for discovering Rho-kinase (ROCK) and for work on small GTPase signaling and neuronal polarity.

Kozo Tomita

Kozo Tomita (富田 耕造) is a Japanese structural biologist and molecular biologist who studies RNA, and has been professor of RNA biology at the University of Tokyo since 2016, known for work on the CCA-adding enzyme.

Krešimir Krnjević

Krešimir Krnjević (1927–2021) was a Croatian-born Canadian neurophysiologist at McGill University who helped establish glutamate and GABA as the brain's principal transmitters, and later studied anesthetics and hypoxia.

Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen is a Danish computational structural biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for long-timescale protein folding simulations and for simulating conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Krishna K. Niyogi is an American plant biologist at UC Berkeley known for genetic analysis of photoprotection in photosynthesis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Krishna V. Shenoy

Krishna V. Shenoy, also known as Krishna Shenoy, is an American neuroscientist and neural engineer at Stanford University who co-founded Neuralink and led brain–computer interface research.

Kristen Brennand

Kristen J. Brennand is a neuroscientist and stem cell biologist who is Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, known for modeling schizophrenia with patient-derived stem cells.

Kristen M Lee

Kristen M. Lee is an American neuroscientist who studies how fruit flies build and maintain the neural circuits controlling locomotion, working at HHMI and the University of Oregon.

Kristen Pleil

Kristen Pleil is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, who studies how sex and stress hormones regulate alcohol use in mice.

Kristin A. Hogquist

Kristin A. Hogquist is an American immunologist at the University of Minnesota known for her work on T cell development in the thymus, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Kristin Baldwin

Kristin K. Baldwin is a neuroscientist and Professor of Genetics and Development at Columbia University since 2020, known for reprogramming, cloning firsts, and 2024 hybrid-brain research.

Kristin Branson

Kristin Branson is a computational biologist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for JAABA, machine learning software that automatically annotates animal behavior from video.

Kristin Scott

Kristin Scott is a neuroscientist and Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley known for characterizing the Gustatory Receptor gene family and how hunger and thirst act on fly taste circuits.

Kristin V. Tarbell

Kristin V. Tarbell is an American immunologist who led the Immune Tolerance Unit at NIH's NIDDK, studying dendritic cells and regulatory T cells to treat type 1 diabetes.

Kristina Sakers

Kristina Sakers, also published as Kristina Sakers Hays, is an American neuroscientist at HHMI in Durham, North Carolina, known for showing that astrocytes locally make proteins.

Kristine Kuhn

Kristine Kuhn is an American rheumatologist who heads the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and received a 2025 PECASE award.