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Kevin Struhl
Kevin Struhl (born 1952) is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for work on transcriptional regulation and an epigenetic switch linking inflammation to cancer.
Kevin Winthrop
Kevin L. Winthrop is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and physician at Oregon Health & Science University, known for nontuberculous mycobacteria research and national treatment guidelines.
Khalid Iqbal
Khalid Iqbal is a neurochemist, known as the "father of tau," who discovered that Alzheimer's paired helical filaments are made of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau protein.
Khandan Keyomarsi
Khandan Keyomarsi is a cancer biologist and professor of experimental radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for linking low-molecular-weight cyclin E to breast cancer prognosis.
Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy
Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy is a Canadian physician-scientist in clinical nutrition and gastroenterology at the University of Toronto, known for developing the Subjective Global Assessment and pioneering home parenteral nutrition in 1971.
Kian Fan Chung
Kian Fan Chung, also published as K.F. Chung, is a respiratory physician-scientist at Imperial College London known for severe asthma research and the 2017 Oxford Street pollution study.
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 D. Janda
Kim D. Janda is an American medicinal chemist and immunologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for pioneering vaccines against drugs of abuse.
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.
Kim Gorgens
Kim Gorgens is a clinical neuropsychologist and professor at the University of Denver whose research documents traumatic brain injury in criminal justice populations and shaped Colorado concussion laws.
Kim Mulholland
Edward Kim Mulholland is an Australian pediatrician, vaccinologist, and epidemiologist known for Hib and pneumococcal vaccine trials in the Gambia that shaped childhood pneumonia prevention in developing countries.
Kim Papp
Kim A. Papp is a Canadian dermatologist who founded Probity Medical Research in Waterloo, Ontario, and ran more than 170 psoriasis trials, co-authoring over 375 publications.
Kimberly Stegmaier
Kimberly Stegmaier is an American pediatric oncologist and cancer biologist who chairs pediatric oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and studies therapeutic targets in childhood leukemias and solid tumors.
Kimford J. Meador
Kimford J. Meador, also published as Kimford Meador, is an American epileptologist and Professor of Neurology at Stanford University whose NEAD study showed fetal valproate exposure lowers childhood IQ.
Kinam Park
Kinam Park is a drug delivery scientist and Showalter Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, known for work on polymers and hydrogels for controlled drug release.
King K. Holmes
King Kennard Holmes (1937–2025) was an American infectious-disease physician-scientist at the University of Washington, known as the father of academic STI research and founding chair of its Department of Global Health.
Kingsley Davis
Kingsley Davis was an American sociologist and demographer who, with Frank Notestein, first stated demographic transition theory in 1945 and coined "population explosion" and "zero population growth."
Kinh Luan Phan
Kinh Luan Phan is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies how stress and trauma shape the brain, and professor and chair of psychiatry at Ohio State.
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.
Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith (1947–2020) was an American environmental health scientist at UC Berkeley who established household air pollution from cooking smoke as a major global health risk.
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.
Kirsten E. Lyke
Kirsten E. Lyke is an American physician-scientist and professor at the University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development, known for human challenge trials in malaria and dengue.
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.
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里柴三郎) was a Japanese bacteriologist who first isolated the tetanus bacillus in pure culture, co-authored the 1890 antitoxin paper founding serum therapy, and built Japan's medical research institutions.
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.
Kiyoshi Shiga
Kiyoshi Shiga (志賀潔) was a Japanese bacteriologist who identified the dysentery bacillus during Tokyo's deadly 1897 epidemic, honored in the names Shigella and Shiga toxin.
Kjell Öberg
Kjell Öberg is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University who founded its endocrine oncology department, pioneered interferon treatment of carcinoid syndrome, and co-founded ENETS.
Kjell Tullus
Kjell Tullus is a Swedish-trained pediatric nephrologist, a children's kidney specialist, who has been a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London since 2002.
Klaus Aktories
Klaus Aktories is a German physician and pharmacologist known for work on bacterial protein toxins targeting Rho GTPases and the actin cytoskeleton, and professor at Freiburg from 1995 to 2018.