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Kasturi Haldar

Kasturi Haldar is an American malaria and rare-disease researcher at the University of Notre Dame who showed how the malaria parasite develops resistance to artemisinin drugs.

Katalin Karikó

Katalin Karikó (Karikó Katalin), Hungarian-American biochemist born 1955 in Szolnok; with Drew Weissman showed nucleoside-modified mRNA evades immune detection, enabling BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Katalin Suszták

Katalin Suszták, also written Katalin Susztak, is a Hungarian-born American physician-scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for kidney disease genetics, the first kidney cell atlas, and APOL1 research.

Katayoun Rezvani

Katayoun Rezvani, known professionally as Katy Rezvani, is a physician-scientist who leads allogeneic natural killer cell therapy research at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Kate A Stafford

Kate A. Stafford, also known as Kathleen M. Stafford, is an American Arctic marine bioacoustician at Oregon State University who uses passive acoustic monitoring to study whales and seals.

Kate Meyer

Kate Meyer, also known as Kate D. Meyer, is an American RNA biologist and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University known for mapping m6A RNA methylation.

Kate Russell Woodworth

Kate Russell Woodworth is an American medical epidemiologist and pediatrician known for containing antimicrobial-resistant organisms and for building national surveillance of health threats to pregnant women and infants.

Kate Schroder

Kate Schroder is an Australian molecular immunologist who heads the Inflammasome Laboratory at the University of Queensland, studying inflammasomes and drugs that switch them off.

Katharina Eichler

Katharina Eichler is a Drosophila connectomics researcher and group leader at Leipzig University since 2023, known for the larval mushroom body connectome and the 2024 adult fly brain wiring diagram.

Katharine C Abruzzi

Katharine C Abruzzi, also known as Katharine Boyer Compton Abruzzi, is an American Drosophila neurogeneticist at Brandeis University known for the TRIBE method and fly clock neuron research.

Katherine A. Gallagher

Katherine Ann Gallagher is a vascular surgeon-scientist at the University of Michigan who studies why wounds fail to heal in diabetes, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Katherine A. Hajjar

Katherine A. Hajjar is an American pediatric hematologist and vascular biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for identifying annexin A2 as the receptor that initiates fibrinolysis.

Katherine A. High

Katherine A. High (Katherine Ann High) is an American physician-scientist who established AAV gene therapy for hemophilia and inherited blindness, and co-founded Spark Therapeutics, which brought Luxturna to market.

Katherine A. Siminovitch

Katherine A. Siminovitch, also known as Katherine Siminovitch, is a Canadian rheumatologist at the University of Toronto who identified over 100 gene variants contributing to autoimmune disease risk.

Katherine Ann Lefebvre

Katherine Ann Lefebvre, known as Kathi, is a Supervisory Research Biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center who studies harmful algal bloom toxins and received a PECASE award.

Katherine Esau

Katherine Esau (1898–1997) was an American botanist, a leading twentieth-century plant anatomist known for the textbook Plant Anatomy and decades of research on phloem, the tissue transporting food in plants.

Katherine Fitzgerald

Katherine A. Fitzgerald is an Irish-born immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School whose research defines how the innate immune system detects pathogens and regulates inflammation.

Katherine Iverson

Katherine M. Iverson is an American clinical research psychologist at VA Boston's National Center for PTSD who studies intimate partner violence screening and treatment for veterans.

Katherine J. Willis

Katherine J. Willis, known as Kathy Willis and as Baroness Willis of Summertown, is a British ecologist, Oxford Professor of Biodiversity, and Crossbench peer in the House of Lords.

Katherine Jones (molecular biologist)

Katherine A. Jones is a molecular biologist and Professor Emerita at the Salk Institute, known for identifying P-TEFb, the elongation factor HIV Tat recruits, and for APC's repression of Wnt genes in colon cancer.

Katherine K. Matthay

Katherine K. Matthay is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at UCSF who led the landmark CCG-3891 neuroblastoma trial, co-authored the INRG classification, and founded the NANT consortium.

Katherine Kedzierska

Katherine Kedzierska is an Australian viral immunologist who heads the Human T cell Laboratory at the Peter Doherty Institute and University of Melbourne, known for work on T-cell immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2.

Katherine King

Katherine King, or Katherine Yudeh King, is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician scientist at Baylor College of Medicine known for studying how infection affects blood stem cells.

Katherine L. Nathanson

Katherine L. Nathanson is an American physician-scientist in cancer genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is Deputy Director of the Abramson Cancer Center.

Katherine L. O'Brien

Katherine L. O'Brien, also published as Kate O'Brien, is a Canadian-born pediatric infectious disease physician and vaccinologist directing immunization at the World Health Organization since 2019.

Katherine L. Wilson

Katherine L. Wilson, known as Kathy Wilson, is an American cell biologist and Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins, known for research on the nuclear envelope and lamins.

Katherine Luzuriaga

Katherine Luzuriaga is a pediatrician and virologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for clinical trials of very early antiretroviral therapy in infants with HIV-1 infection.

Katherine M. Detre

Katherine M. Detre, born Katherine Maria Drechsler (1926–2006), was a Hungarian-born American epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who co-founded its Epidemiology Data Center and led the BARI coronary trials.

Katherine M. Flegal

Katherine M. Flegal, also published as K M Flegal, is an American epidemiologist who spent nearly 30 years at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics studying obesity.

Katherine Radek

Katherine Radek is an American researcher of skin innate immunity and the urinary microbiome at Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine, awarded the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.