Life and health scientists

Justin M. Balko

Justin M. Balko is an American translational cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who studies why breast cancers resist chemotherapy and immunotherapy and which biomarkers predict response.

Justin Parent

Justin Parent is an American clinical child psychologist, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the KiDS Lab who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Justin Runyon

Justin B. Runyon is an American research entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station in Bozeman, Montana, who studies plant–insect chemical ecology and received a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.

Justin Rustenhoven

Justin Rustenhoven is a New Zealand neuroimmunologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, known for work on skull bone marrow immune surveillance of the brain.

Justin Stebbing

Justin Stebbing is a British oncologist, a professor at Imperial College London and Anglia Ruskin University who works on cancer immunotherapy and led breast cancer drug target research.

Justin Taraska

Justin W. Taraska is an American cell biologist and Senior Investigator at the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute who studies vesicle fusion and endocytosis.

Justin Zook

Justin Zook is an American biomedical engineer and genomics researcher at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who co-leads the Genome in a Bottle Consortium and received a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jyoti Nangalia

Jyoti Nangalia is a physician-scientist in blood cancer genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, known for discovering CALR mutations as drivers of myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Jyoti R. Misra

Jyoti R. Misra is an American biologist known for defining the CncC/Nrf2–Keap1 detoxification pathway in fruit flies and for work on Fat signaling in the Hippo pathway.

K. Christopher García

K. Christopher Garcia is an American structural immunologist at Stanford University School of Medicine, an HHMI Investigator since 2005, known for the first T cell receptor structures.

K. Dane Wittrup

K. Dane Wittrup, known as Dane Wittrup, is a chemical and biological engineer at MIT who developed yeast surface display and applies protein engineering to cancer immunotherapy.

K. E. van Holde

K. E. van Holde, or Kensal Edward van Holde, was an American biochemist at Oregon State University best known for describing the nucleosome core particle and chromatin structure.

K. Frank Austen

K. Frank Austen (1928–2023) was an American immunologist who spent his career at Harvard Medical School, co-characterized slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis, and led allergy research at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

K. Heran Darwin

K. Heran Darwin (혜란 다윈) is an American microbiologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for her work on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteasome and Pup.

K. Lance Gould

K. Lance Gould is an American physician-scientist and non-invasive cardiologist at UTHealth Houston, known for discovering coronary flow reserve, pioneering quantitative cardiac PET imaging, and developing the physiologic assessment of coronary stenoses used worldwide.

K. Ranga Rama Krishnan

K. Ranga Rama Krishnan is an Indian-born psychiatrist and academic leader who chaired psychiatry at Duke, led Duke-NUS in Singapore, and headed Rush in Chicago.

K. Sreekumaran Nair

K. Sreekumaran Nair, also known as K. S. Nair, is a physician-scientist in endocrinology and metabolism who leads a diabetes and aging research laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

K. Srinath Reddy

K. Srinath Reddy is an Indian cardiologist and public health researcher who founded the Public Health Foundation of India in 2006 after heading cardiology at AIIMS, New Delhi.

K. VijayRaghavan

K. VijayRaghavan is an Indian developmental biologist who studies muscle and nerve development in fruit flies and was India's Principal Scientific Adviser from 2018 to 2022.

K.M. Venkat Narayan

K.M. Venkat Narayan is a physician-epidemiologist at Emory University who studies diabetes, obesity, and vascular disease, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

K.V. Rajagopalan

K.V. Rajagopalan is an Indian-born American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University, whose laboratory discovered molybdopterin, the organic part of the molybdenum cofactor.

Kaan Boztug

Kaan Boztug (born 1977 in Eregli, Turkey) is an Austrian-based physician-scientist in immunology known for discovering more than 20 previously unknown immune diseases and developing stem-cell gene therapy for primary immunodeficiencies.

Kaare Christensen

Kaare Christensen, born in Denmark in 1959, is a Danish genetic epidemiologist and professor at the University of Southern Denmark who studies human aging and longevity.

Kaare Harald Bønaa

Kaare Harald Bønaa, also published as Kaare H. Bønaa, is a Norwegian cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist, professor emeritus at NTNU, known for leading the NORVIT and NORSTENT trials.

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Kaeli Swift

Kaeli Swift is an American ornithologist best known for experimental research on how wild American crows respond to their dead, work popularly described as the study of "crow funerals."

Kai C. Wollert

Kai C. Wollert is a German cardiologist who has been professor of Molecular and Translational Cardiology at Hannover Medical School since 2010, known for the BOOST trial and GDF-15.

Kai G. Zinn

Kai G. Zinn, also published as Kai Zinn, is a molecular biologist at Caltech whose lab maps interactions among human and Drosophila cell surface proteins.

Kai Johnsson

Kai Johnsson, born 1963, is a German and Swiss chemical biologist directing the Department of Chemical Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg since 2017.

Kai Tan

Kai Tan is a computational and systems biologist who studies blood formation and childhood cancer, directing the Center for Single Cell Biology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.