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Kathleen Neuzil

Kathleen Neuzil is a physician-scientist in vaccinology who led large typhoid and rotavirus vaccine trials and directed the University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development.

Kathryn A. Taubert

Kathryn A. Taubert is an American cardiovascular researcher who spent decades at the American Heart Association, coauthoring guidelines on infective endocarditis and rheumatic heart disease.

Kathryn E. Wellen

Kathryn E. Wellen is an American cancer biologist who chairs Cancer Biology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, known for linking cellular metabolism to histone acetylation.

Kathryn Keenan

Kathryn Keenan is an American MRI metrologist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who received a 2019 PECASE for making MRI a quantitative, standards-based measurement tool.

Kathryn M. Edwards

Kathryn M. Edwards is an American pediatric infectious-disease specialist and vaccine researcher at Vanderbilt University whose clinical trials shaped US immunization policy for Hib, influenza, and pertussis.

Kathryn M. Ferguson

Kathryn M. Ferguson is a structural biologist and cancer researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how receptor tyrosine kinases, receptors driving many cancers, switch on and off.

Kathryn Maitland

Kathryn Maitland, also published as Kath Maitland, is a professor of pediatric tropical infectious diseases at Imperial College London, based in Kenya, known for the FEAST trial that changed WHO fluid guidelines.

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.

Kathryn Pitkin Derose

Kathryn Pitkin Derose is an American health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who studies immigrants' health care access and community- and faith-based health interventions.

Kathy D. Miller

Kathy D. Miller, also published as Kathy Miller, is an American medical oncologist at Indiana University School of Medicine who led the 2007 E2100 breast cancer trial.

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.

Kathy L. Newell

Kathy L. Newell, MD, is a neuropathologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who studies Alzheimer's disease, co-authored tau filament structures, and leads a $4.8 million TDP-43 research grant.

Kathy Rowan

Kathy Rowan, also known as Kathryn M. Rowan, is a British critical care researcher who founded and led ICNARC from 1994 to 2023, known for the ProMISe trial.

Kathy S. Albain

Kathy S. Albain, also published as Kathy Albain, is an American medical oncologist and clinical-trial researcher at Loyola University Chicago, and since 2019 a vice chair of the SWOG Cancer Research Network.

Katia Georgopoulos

Katia Georgopoulos is an American immunologist who identified Ikaros, a master regulator of lymphocyte development, and is Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Katrin F. Chua

Katrin F. Chua is a physician-scientist at Stanford who studies the molecular biology of aging, known for establishing the sirtuin enzymes SIRT6 and SIRT7 as selective histone deacetylases.

Katrina Armstrong

Katrina Armstrong is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University who researches medical decision-making and cancer care disparities, and served as Columbia's interim president from 2024 to 2025.

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.

Kavita Arora

Kavita Shah Arora is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and bioethicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who researches contraception disparities and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Kay Dickersin

Kay Dickersin is an epidemiologist and Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins whose research established publication bias in clinical trials; she led the US Cochrane Center and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2007.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison, American clinical psychologist at Johns Hopkins, Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders, co-author of the standard bipolar textbook and memoirist of An Unquiet Mind.

Kay‐Tee Khaw

Kay-Tee Khaw, born 1950, is a physician and epidemiologist, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Gerontology at the University of Cambridge, known for large studies of nutrition and health in later life.

Kaye Wellings

Kaye Wellings is a British social scientist and Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, best known as founder of the Natsal surveys.

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.

Kazuaki Chayama

Kazuaki Chayama (茶山 一彰) is a Japanese hepatologist, long a professor at Hiroshima University, known for work on hepatitis B drug resistance, hepatitis C therapy, and liver cancer genetics.

Kazuhiko Koike

Kazuhiko Koike (小池 和彦) is a Japanese hepatologist and gastroenterologist who was a professor at the University of Tokyo until 2021, known for his hepatitis C research.

Kazuhiko Nakagawa

Kazuhiko Nakagawa (中川 和彦) is a Japanese medical oncologist, director of the Cancer Center at Kindai University Hospital, known for leading RELAY, the first global lung cancer trial led by a Japanese principal investigator.

Kazuo Tsubota

Kazuo Tsubota (坪田一男) is a Japanese ophthalmologist known for research on dry eye, myopia, and corneal regenerative medicine, who was professor of ophthalmology at Keio University from 2004 to 2021 and now leads Tsubota Laboratory.

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.

Kedar K. Adour

Kedar K. Adour was an American otolaryngologist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, who ran large facial palsy studies and argued prednisone should replace surgical decompression.