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Klaus F. Rabe

Klaus F. Rabe (born 1957) is a German pulmonologist and professor of pulmonary medicine at Kiel, known for the ETHOS COPD trial and dupilumab severe asthma trial.

Klaus H. Kaestner

Klaus H. Kaestner, born 1961 in Münster, is a German-born American geneticist and genetics professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for FoxA and intestinal stem cell research.

Klaus Ley

Klaus Ley is a German-born immunologist, professor at the Medical College of Georgia, known for the leukocyte adhesion cascade and for treating atherosclerosis as an immune disease.

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.

Klaus Pantel

Klaus Pantel, born 1960, is a German physician and oncologist directing the Institute of Tumor Biology in Hamburg, known for research on disseminated tumor cells.

Klaus Pfeffer

Klaus Pfeffer is a German infection immunologist who directs the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and won the Leibniz Prize in 2004.

Klaus Rajewsky

Klaus Rajewsky is a German immunologist known for his work on B cells, germinal centers, and developing conditional gene targeting in mice, leading a research group in Berlin.

Klaus‐Michael Debatin

Klaus-Michael Debatin, born 1952 in Karlsruhe, is a German pediatric hematologist-oncologist who helped discover the CD95 apoptosis pathway in 1989 and directed pediatrics at Ulm University Medical Center for 27 years.

Klim McPherson

Klim McPherson, born 1941, is a British epidemiologist and visiting professor at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences elected in 1998.

Kohei Miyazono

Kohei Miyazono (宮園浩平, born 1956) is a Japanese cancer biologist known for work on TGF-β signaling, the tumor microenvironment, and metastasis, and is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Tokyo.

Kohei Shitara

Kohei Shitara (設樂 紘平) is a Japanese medical oncologist who directs gastrointestinal oncology at the National Cancer Center Hospital East and led the DESTINY-Gastric01 and SPOTLIGHT trials.

Koichi Akashi

Koichi Akashi is a Japanese hematologist and professor at Kyushu University known for identifying the blood system's common lymphoid and myeloid progenitors and for leukemia stem cell research.

Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson

Kojo S.J. Elenitoba-Johnson is an American molecular pathologist specializing in lymphoma and leukemia, inaugural chair of pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2022.

Komal Jhaveri

Komal Jhaveri is a breast medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she heads the Endocrine Therapy Research Program and led the INAVO120 and EMBER-3 trials.

Konrad Beyreuther

Konrad Beyreuther, born 1941, is a German molecular biologist known for identifying the amyloid protein of Alzheimer's plaques and for characterizing the amyloid precursor protein at Heidelberg.

Korbinian Brodmann

Korbinian Brodmann was a German neurologist who divided the human cerebral cortex into 43 numbered areas in his 1909 monograph, a map neuroscientists still use to localize brain imaging data.

Kornélia Polyák

Kornélia Polyák (Kornelia Polyak) is a Hungarian-born physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for cloning p27Kip1 in 1994 and for research on breast tumor evolution and heterogeneity.

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.

Kouji Matsushima

Kouji Matsushima (松島 綱治) is a Japanese immunologist known for discovering the chemokines IL-8 and MCP-1, which recruit white blood cells to inflamed tissue, and for work that led to the cancer drug mogamulizumab.

Kris V. Kowdley

Kris V. Kowdley, also published as Kris Kowdley, is an American hepatologist who designs and leads international clinical trials of new treatments for hepatitis C and other liver diseases.

Krishnansu S. Tewari

Krishnansu S. Tewari, full name Krishnansu Sujata Tewari, is an American gynecologic oncologist at UC Irvine who led the GOG 240 trial establishing bevacizumab in cervical cancer.

Krista F. Huybrechts

Krista F. Huybrechts is an American-based pharmacoepidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who studies the safety of prescription medications taken during pregnancy.

Krista M. Lisdahl

Krista M. Lisdahl is an American clinical neuropsychologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee who studies how chronic cannabis, alcohol, and nicotine use affect the developing adolescent brain.

Kristen J. Tomaszewski

Kristen J. Tomaszewski is a renal pathologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and known for work on complement detection and the B-HOT gene panel in transplant biopsies.

Kristian Andersen

Kristian G. Andersen is a Danish-born immunologist and genomicist at Scripps Research who studies how emerging viruses like SARS-CoV-2, Zika, and Ebola emerge and spread.

Kristian Helin

Kristian Helin is a Danish cancer researcher working on epigenetics who has led the Institute of Cancer Research in London since 2021 and identified the first E2F transcription factors.

Kristian R. Olson

Kristian R. Olson is an American internist and pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for founding CAMTech and co-inventing the AIR newborn resuscitator.

Kristian Reich

Kristian Reich is a German dermatologist and translational researcher in inflammatory skin diseases, guest professor at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of MoonLake Immunotherapeutics.

Kristie L. Ebi

Kristie L. Ebi is an epidemiologist and University of Washington professor who has worked on climate change and health for over 30 years, including leading IPCC assessments.

Kristin L. Nichol

Kristin L. Nichol is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA whose studies quantified how influenza vaccination reduces hospitalizations and deaths in elderly people.