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Kenneth Aldape

Kenneth Aldape is a molecular neuropathologist at Mayo Clinic, previously chief of pathology at the National Cancer Institute, known for DNA methylation work in glioma and the WHO CNS5 tumor classification.

Kenneth Brinkhous

Kenneth Brinkhous (1908–2000) was an American pathologist who discovered that hemophilia results from a missing clotting factor, Factor VIII, and pioneered plasma replacement therapy for it.

Kenneth C. Anderson (hematologist-oncologist)

Kenneth C. Anderson is an American hematologist-oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose work helped extend multiple myeloma survival from about 3 to over 7 years.

Kenneth C. Gorson

Kenneth C. Gorson is an American neurologist and neuromuscular specialist, Professor of Neurology at Tufts, known for New England Journal of Medicine reviews on paraproteinemic neuropathies and concussion.

Kenneth Carl Anderson

Kenneth Carl Anderson is an American hematologist-oncologist and multiple myeloma researcher who directs the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber and led preclinical work on bortezomib, FDA-approved in 2003.

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 E. Sherman

Kenneth E. Sherman is an American hepatologist and Gould Professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, first author of the 2011 ILLUMINATE telaprevir trial for hepatitis C.

Kenneth E. Warner

Kenneth E. Warner is an American health economist at the University of Michigan, a leading scholar of tobacco control elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1996.

Kenneth E.L. McColl

Kenneth E.L. McColl, also known as Kenneth E. McColl, is a Scottish gastroenterologist at the University of Glasgow known for research on Helicobacter pylori infection and peptic ulcer disease.

Kenneth F. Maxcy

Kenneth F. Maxcy (1889–1966) was an American epidemiologist who showed that the mild typhus of the southeastern United States was flea-borne murine typhus, carried by rats.

Kenneth G. C. Smith

Kenneth G. C. Smith, known as Ken Smith, is an Australian clinical immunologist and nephrologist who has been the seventh Director of WEHI in Melbourne since April 2024.

Kenneth G. Mann

Kenneth G. Mann, born Kenneth Gerard Mann, is an American biochemist and hemostasis researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, known for the prothrombinase complex.

Kenneth G. Saag

Kenneth G. Saag is an American rheumatologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for osteoporosis trials and as the 85th President of the American College of Rheumatology.

Kenneth H. Fischbeck

Kenneth H. Fischbeck is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist who identified the gene mutation causing Kennedy's disease and served as chief of the Neurogenetics Branch at NINDS.

Kenneth H. Mayer

Kenneth H. Mayer is an American infectious-disease physician, Harvard professor, and HIV prevention researcher who has led research at Fenway Health in Boston since 1980.

Kenneth J. Leveno

Kenneth J. Leveno (1941–2020) was an American obstetrician and maternal-fetal medicine researcher at UT Southwestern, Chief of Obstetrics at Parkland Hospital for over 20 years.

Kenneth J. Mukamal

Kenneth J. Mukamal is an American physician and Harvard professor who practices general medicine at BIDMC, known for cohort studies of alcohol drinking patterns, dementia risk, and blood-pressure treatment.

Kenneth J. Rothman

Kenneth J. Rothman is an American epidemiologist, professor at Boston University and Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at RTI International, known for the textbook Modern Epidemiology and for founding the journal Epidemiology in 1990.

Kenneth K. Wu

Kenneth K. Wu (伍焜玉), nicknamed "Mr. Platelet" in Taiwan, is a physician-scientist known for platelet activation research and for leading Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes from 2006 to 2012.

Kenneth Kaushansky

Kenneth Kaushansky is an American hematologist known for discovering thrombopoietin, the hormone regulating platelet production, and for serving as Editor-in-Chief of Blood and Dean of Stony Brook University's medical school.

Kenneth L. Davis

Kenneth L. Davis is an American psychiatrist who created the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale and led the Mount Sinai Health System as CEO from 2003 to 2023.

Kenneth L. Tyler

Kenneth L. Tyler is an American physician-scientist in neuroinfectious disease at the University of Colorado, known for the 2005 NEJM report linking natalizumab to PML.

Kenneth M. Langa

Kenneth M. Langa is an American general internist and dementia epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, co-director of the Health and Retirement Study and a 2024 National Academy of Medicine electee.

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 McIntosh (pediatric virologist)

Kenneth McIntosh is an American pediatric virologist and infectious-disease specialist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard, known for early HIV diagnosis in infants and childhood pneumonia.

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. Kendler

Kenneth S. Kendler, born 1950, is an American psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University who directs the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and studies schizophrenia.

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.