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Kathryn Moore
Kathryn J. Moore is a Canadian-born atherosclerosis researcher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for defining microRNA-33 as a cholesterol regulator and identifying the netrin-1 pathway that traps macrophages in plaques.
Kathy K. Griendling
Kathy K. Griendling is a vascular biologist and the R. Wayne Alexander Professor of Medicine at Emory University, known for defining the role of NADPH oxidases in vascular disease.
Kausik K. Ray
Kausik K. Ray is a British cardiologist and professor of public health at Imperial College London, known for trials of lipid-lowering drugs including inclisiran and bempedoic acid.
Kazem Rahimi
Kazem Rahimi is a professor of cardiovascular medicine and population health at Oxford and a consultant cardiologist, known for leading the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration.
Kazuwa Nakao
Kazuwa Nakao (中尾 一和) is a Japanese endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Kyoto University whose laboratory carried natriuretic peptides and leptin from discovery into clinical use.
Keith A.A. Fox
Keith A.A. Fox is a British cardiologist who held the Duke of Edinburgh Professorship of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh and led trials shaping acute coronary syndrome treatment.
Keith Cohn
Keith E. Cohn is an American cardiologist known for a 1976 NEJM paper defining variant angina with normal coronary arteriogram, and 1974 work on dialysis hypotension.
Keith M. Channon
Keith M. Channon is a British cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine at Oxford, known for research on nitric oxide, coronary heart disease genetics, and the QR4 risk algorithm.
Kelly E. Mayo
Kelly E. Mayo is an American molecular endocrinologist known for cloning the human growth hormone-releasing factor cDNA in 1983 and for serving as president of the Endocrine Society.
Kenneth Cusi
Kenneth Cusi is an Argentina-trained physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Florida, known for establishing the diabetes drug pioglitazone as a treatment for NASH.
Kenneth D. Bloch
Kenneth D. Bloch (1956–2014) was an American physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for research on atrial natriuretic peptide, nitric oxide, and BMP signaling.
Kenneth M. Rosen
Kenneth M. Rosen (1937-1982) was an American cardiologist who helped establish clinical cardiac electrophysiology, leading cardiology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.
Kenneth R. Chien
Kenneth R. Chien is an American cardiovascular scientist whose laboratory identified the progenitor cells that build the mammalian heart; he is now Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet.
Kenneth Rosenfield
Kenneth Rosenfield is an American interventional cardiologist who heads vascular medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for trials like BEST-CLI and for creating the pulmonary embolism response team concept.
Kenneth S. Polonsky
Kenneth S. Polonsky is a South African-born physician-scientist and diabetes researcher at the University of Chicago, known for work on insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes and beta-cell failure.
Kenneth W. Mahaffey
Kenneth W. Mahaffey is an American cardiologist and clinical trials researcher who directs the Stanford Center for Clinical Research and is a Stanford associate dean.
Kenneth Walsh (molecular biologist)
Kenneth Walsh is an American molecular biologist known for showing that adiponectin protects the heart, and now leads the Hematovascular Biology Center at the University of Virginia.
Kevin D. Hall
Kevin D. Hall is an American physiologist and computational modeler who led NIH diet trials, including a 2019 study showing ultra-processed food causes overeating and weight gain.
Kiang Liu
Kiang Liu is a cardiovascular epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for the CARDIA study of heart-disease risk from young adulthood into middle age.
Kim A. Eagle
Kim A. Eagle is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Frankel Cardiovascular Center and founded the aortic dissection registry IRAD in 1996.
Kim Fox
Kim Michael Fox, born 1948, is a British cardiologist, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for trials of ivabradine and angina, and ESC president 2006–2008.
Kiran Musunuru
Kiran Musunuru is a cardiologist and geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania known for CRISPR gene editing that permanently lowers cholesterol and for the first personalized CRISPR therapy.
Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is a UCSF general internist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who became the 17th editor in chief of JAMA in 2022, the first Black person in the role.
Kirsty Spalding
Kirsty L. Spalding, born 1972, is an Australian-born biologist and Professor of Adipocyte Biology at Karolinska Institutet, known for radiocarbon dating human fat cell turnover.
Kitt Falk Petersen
Kitt Falk Petersen is a Danish-trained physician and metabolism researcher, Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at Yale since 2012, known for measuring insulin resistance and mitochondrial function in living humans.
Klaus Lindpaintner
Klaus Lindpaintner is an Austrian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and cardiovascular genetics, known for large 1990s prospective studies of gene polymorphisms and heart disease, and later industry roles at Roche, Pfizer, and Thermo Fisher.
Kory Lavine
Kory J. Lavine is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine who studies how immune cells drive heart disease and repair.
Kristina Schoonjans
Kristina Schoonjans is a metabolism researcher and Associate Professor at EPFL in Switzerland, known for discovering that bile acids increase energy metabolism by activating the TGR5 receptor.
Kristy Red-Horse
Kristy Red-Horse is an American cardiovascular developmental biologist and Stanford professor elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 for research on coronary vessel development.
L. Kristin Newby
L. Kristin Newby, also published as Laura Kristin Newby, is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Duke University, known for acute coronary syndrome trials and the MURDOCK Study.