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Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson
Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson is a Swedish physician-scientist in obstetrics and gynecology, professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2006, known for medical abortion research with mifepristone and misoprostol and for the 2024 PRIMA trial.
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.
Kristina Sundquist
Kristina Sundquist is a Swedish professor of family medicine and clinical epidemiology at Lund University, known for nationwide register studies of social environment and chronic disease.
Kristine E. Ensrud
Kristine E. Ensrud is an American general internist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA who studies fractures, falls, and frailty in older adults.
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe is an American psychiatrist and epidemiologist who studies cognitive aging and dementia at UCSF and the San Francisco VA, estimating 30%–40% of dementia risk may be preventable.
Kristopher T. Kahle
Kristopher T. Kahle is a pediatric neurosurgeon and human geneticist who directs pediatric neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies the genetics of hydrocephalus in children.
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.
Krzysztof Kiryluk
Krzysztof Kiryluk is a nephrologist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of Nephrology and Jay Meltzer Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, studying the genetics of kidney disease.
Kunihiro Hattori
Kunihiro Hattori (服部邦洋) is a Japanese antibody engineer who conceived and led creation of emicizumab, the first bispecific antibody therapeutic for hemophilia A, earning the 2026 Lasker–DeBakey award.
Kunio Okuda
Kunio Okuda (奥田 邦雄, 1921–2003) was a Japanese hepatologist at Chiba University, a pioneer in liver cancer research and creator of the Okuda staging system.
Kunitada Shimotohno
Kunitada Shimotohno (下遠野 邦忠) is a Japanese molecular biologist whose Tokyo laboratory cloned the Japanese hepatitis C virus genome in 1990, work cited in the 2020 Nobel Prize background.
Kurt Benirschke
Kurt Benirschke (1924–2018) was a German American pathologist and geneticist at UC San Diego who founded placental pathology as a discipline and created the San Diego Zoo's Frozen Zoo.
Kurt Einarsson
Kurt Einarsson is a Swedish physician and researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm known for studies of hepatic cholesterol and bile acid metabolism, aging, and gallstone disease.
Kurt Hirschhorn
Kurt Hirschhorn (1926–2022) was an Austrian-born American pediatrician and medical geneticist who identified the chromosome deletion defining Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and helped found clinical cytogenetics in the United States.
Kurt J. Bloch
Kurt J. Bloch is an American immunologist and rheumatologist, emeritus professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for 1968 and 1972 New England Journal papers on heavy-chain disease and surface immunoglobulins.
Kurt Straíf
Kurt Straif is a German-trained cancer epidemiologist and physician who headed the IARC Monographs Program in Lyon and joined Boston College as a Research Professor in 2022.
Kwok-Kin Wong
Kwok-Kin Wong is a medical oncologist and cancer biologist who directs hematology and medical oncology at NYU Langone and studies lung cancer through genetically engineered mouse models.
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou is a bioengineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine known for scaffold-free cartilage tissue engineering, five founded companies, and 15 FDA-approved products.
L. Clifford McDonald
L. Clifford McDonald is an American infectious diseases physician and researcher at the CDC, known for his work on the epidemiology and prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection.
L. Darryl Quarles
L. Darryl Quarles, also known as Leigh Darryl Quarles, is an American nephrologist known for establishing FGF23 as a bone-derived hormone regulating phosphate and vitamin D metabolism.
L. Jackson Roberts
L. Jackson Roberts II, known as Jack Roberts, was an American clinical pharmacologist and Vanderbilt professor who co-discovered the isoprostanes, free-radical lipid products used to measure oxidative stress.
L. Joseph Melton
L. Joseph Melton III is a physician-epidemiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose population-based studies showed bone density predicts fractures up to 20 years later.
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.
L. Maximilian Buja
L. Maximilian Buja is an American cardiovascular pathologist known for research on platelet aggregation and thrombosis in unstable angina, and Dean Emeritus of McGovern Medical School.
Ladislas J. Meduna
Ladislas J. Meduna (László Meduna, 1896–1964) was a Hungarian-American neurologist who introduced convulsive therapy in 1934, inducing seizures with camphor and cardiazol to treat schizophrenia.
Lainie Friedman Ross
Lainie Friedman Ross, also published as Lainie F. Ross, is an American pediatrician and bioethicist who chairs the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester.
Laith J. Abu-Raddad
Laith J. Abu-Raddad (Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad) is a Qatar-based infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, known for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies.
Lalit Dandona
Lalit Dandona is an Indian physician-scientist in population health metrics, a professor at IHME and the Public Health Foundation of India, and director of the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative.
Lalita Ramakrishnan
Lalita Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born physician-scientist, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge, known for pioneering the zebrafish model of tuberculosis and winning the 2024 Robert Koch Prize.
Lance B. Becker M.D.
Lance B. Becker, known as Lance Becker, is an American resuscitation scientist who chairs Emergency Medicine at Northwell Health and is known for cardiac arrest research.