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Kristján R. Jessen
Kristján R. Jessen, also published as Kristjan R. Jessen, is an Emeritus Professor at University College London known for landmark work on Schwann cells and enteric glia.
Krystyna Keleman
Krystyna Keleman is a Drosophila neurogeneticist who studies how learning is converted into long-term memory in fruit flies; she was a Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus from 2013 to 2022.
Krzysztof Fidelis
Krzysztof Fidelis is a computational structural biologist who directs the Protein Structure Prediction Center at UC Davis and co-founded CASP, the biennial protein structure prediction experiment, in 1994.
Krzysztof Palczewski
Krzysztof Palczewski is a Polish-born American biochemical pharmacologist and vision scientist known for solving the crystal structure of rhodopsin, the retina's light-detecting protein, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Kuan‐Teh Jeang
Kuan-Teh Jeang, known as K T Jeang, was a Taiwanese-born molecular virologist who spent his career at the NIH studying HIV-1 and HTLV-1 and founded the journal Retrovirology in 2004.
Kumao Toyoshima
Kumao Toyoshima (豊島久真男, 1930–2022) was a Japanese virologist and oncologist who first proved a cancer virus carries a transforming gene, identified the erbB oncogene, and co-identified HER2.
Kun Ping Lu
Kun Ping Lu is a Chinese-born biochemist and cancer biologist known for discovering Pin1, an enzyme linked to cancer and Alzheimer's, and developing Pin1-targeted therapies.
Kun Zhang
Kun Zhang is an American-based genomics and epigenomics researcher known for single-cell genome sequencing, a Principal Investigator at Altos Labs after chairing bioengineering at UC San Diego.
Kung, Ching
Ching Kung is an emeritus Vilas Professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who used Paramecium and E. coli to discover mechanosensitive ion channels, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Kunihiko Suzuki
Kunihiko Suzuki was a Japanese-born American neurochemist and neurologist, Professor Emeritus at UNC, who identified the enzyme defect behind Krabbe disease, proposed the psychosine hypothesis, and died in 2025.
Kunihiro Matsumoto
Kunihiro Matsumoto (松本 邦弘) is a Japanese molecular geneticist, professor at Nagoya University from 1990 to 2017, known for yeast signal transduction and C. elegans nerve-cell regeneration research.
Kuo-Fen Lee
Kuo-Fen Lee, born 1959 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is a molecular neurobiologist and professor at the Salk Institute known for defining p75 neurotrophin receptor function through gene targeting.
Kurt Drickamer
Kurt Drickamer is a biochemist holding the Chair in Biochemistry at Imperial College London, known for classifying animal lectins and coining the term C-type lectin.
Kurt G. Beam
Kurt G. Beam is an American muscle physiologist and ion-channel researcher, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Kurt J. Isselbacher
Kurt J. Isselbacher (1925–2019) was a German-born American physician-scientist who led the Massachusetts General Hospital Gastrointestinal Unit for three decades, identified the enzymatic defect causing galactosemia, and founded the MGH Cancer Center.
Kurt Nordström
Kurt Nordström was a Swedish microbiologist and geneticist at Uppsala University who worked out how plasmid replication is controlled, credited with discovering regulatory RNA, and won the Björkénska prize in 2008.
Kurt Von Figura
Kurt von Figura is a German biochemist known for work on lysosomal enzymes and sulfatases, and president of the University of Göttingen from 2005 to 2010.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich, born 1938 in Aarberg, Switzerland, is a Swiss chemist and biophysicist who won half of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing NMR spectroscopy to determine protein structures.
Kwang‐Wook Choi
Kwang-Wook Choi (최광욱) is a South Korean molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at KAIST who studies Drosophila eye development, pattern formation, and organ growth control.
Kwangmeyung Kim
Kwangmeyung Kim (김광명) is a South Korean nanomedicine researcher known for glycol chitosan nanoparticles and cancer theranostics, and a Distinguished Professor at Ewha Womans University since 2022.
Kwangseog Ahn
Kwangseog Ahn (안광석) is a South Korean viral immunologist and professor of biological sciences at Seoul National University, known for MHC class I antigen processing and SAMHD1 research.
Kyeong Kyu Kim
Kyeong Kyu Kim is a South Korean structural biologist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, known for Nature structures including the B-DNA–Z-DNA junction (2005).
Kymberly Gowdy
Kymberly Gowdy is an American pulmonary immunologist at Ohio State University who studies how inhaled pollutants like diesel exhaust and ozone increase lung disease, receiving a 2025 PECASE award.
Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung
Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung, also published as June Kwon-Chung, is a medical mycologist who heads a research section at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, and studies the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus.
Kyungjae Myung
Kyungjae Myung (명경재) is a South Korean molecular biologist known for yeast studies of DNA repair and genome instability, and director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity.
L. Andrew Lyon
L. Andrew Lyon (Louis Andrew Lyon) is an American chemist known for research on microgels and hydrogels, and a professor at Chapman University since 2014.
L. Andrew Staehelin
L. Andrew Staehelin (1939–2022) was a Swiss-trained cell biologist and electron microscopist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studied plant Golgi and cell division and promoted high-pressure freezing.
L. David Sibley
L. David Sibley is an American molecular microbiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for his research on the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
L. Mario Amzel
L. Mario Amzel was an Argentine-born structural biologist and biophysicist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who determined the structures of antibodies and enzymes, dying in 2021.
L. Stirling Churchman
L. Stirling Churchman is an RNA biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for pioneering NET-seq and for showing that mitochondrial and cytosolic translation are synchronized.