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Katherine Rauen

Katherine Rauen is an American medical geneticist who coined the term "RASopathies" for Ras/MAPK pathway syndromes, founded the NF/Ras Pathway Clinic at UCSF, and received the 2012 PECASE award.

Katherine Woollett

Katherine Woollett is a neuroscientist at UCL's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging whose 2011 study showed London taxi trainees' hippocampi grew during training, cited by the 2014 Nobel Committee.

Kathleen A. Dracup

Kathleen A. Dracup is an American cardiovascular nursing scientist and Dean Emerita of the UCSF School of Nursing, known for research on heart disease patients and their families.

Kathleen Collins

Kathleen Collins is an American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley known for defining the composition, function, and structure of telomerase and for engineering retroelement proteins for genome editing.

Kathleen H. Burns

Kathleen H. Burns is an American cancer geneticist and pathologist who chairs the Department of Pathology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and studies transposable elements in cancer.

Kathleen I. Pritchard

Kathleen I. Pritchard is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical trials scientist at Sunnybrook in Toronto who chaired Canada's breast cancer trials group from 1984 to 2007.

Kathleen L. Gould

Kathleen L. Gould is an American cell biologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for her 1989 finding that tyrosine phosphorylation of Cdc2 regulates entry into mitosis.

Kathleen Loretta Collins

Kathleen Loretta Collins is an American physician-scientist and University of Michigan professor known for showing how HIV's Nef protein hides infected cells from immune attack.

Kathleen N. Moore

Kathleen N. Moore, also published as Kathleen Moore, is an American gynecologic oncologist who led the SOLO-1 and MIRASOL ovarian cancer trials and became deputy director of the Buffett Cancer Center in 2026.

Kathleen Neuzil

Kathleen Neuzil is a physician-scientist in vaccinology who led large typhoid and rotavirus vaccine trials and directed the University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development.

Kathrin Plath

Kathrin Plath is a German-born American epigeneticist and Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA whose laboratory studies how the RNA Xist silences the X chromosome and the epigenetics of induced pluripotent stem cells.

Kathryn A. Taubert

Kathryn A. Taubert is an American cardiovascular researcher who spent decades at the American Heart Association, coauthoring guidelines on infective endocarditis and rheumatic heart disease.

Kathryn Baer

Kathryn C. Baer is an American research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service in Anchorage, Alaska, who received the Presidential Early Career Award in January 2025.

Kathryn Calame

Kathryn L. Calame is an American immunologist and molecular biologist who spent most of her career at Columbia University, known for discovering the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer and identifying Blimp-1.

Kathryn E. Wellen

Kathryn E. Wellen is an American cancer biologist who chairs Cancer Biology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, known for linking cellular metabolism to histone acetylation.

Kathryn Holt

Kathryn E. Holt is a computational biologist who studies how bacterial pathogens evolve and spread, and has been Professor of Microbial Systems Genomics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 2018.

Kathryn Keenan

Kathryn Keenan is an American MRI metrologist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who received a 2019 PECASE for making MRI a quantitative, standards-based measurement tool.

Kathryn M. Edwards

Kathryn M. Edwards is an American pediatric infectious-disease specialist and vaccine researcher at Vanderbilt University whose clinical trials shaped US immunization policy for Hib, influenza, and pertussis.

Kathryn M. Ferguson

Kathryn M. Ferguson is a structural biologist and cancer researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how receptor tyrosine kinases, receptors driving many cancers, switch on and off.

Kathryn Maitland

Kathryn Maitland, also published as Kath Maitland, is a professor of pediatric tropical infectious diseases at Imperial College London, based in Kenya, known for the FEAST trial that changed WHO fluid guidelines.

Kathryn Moore

Kathryn J. Moore is a Canadian-born atherosclerosis researcher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for defining microRNA-33 as a cholesterol regulator and identifying the netrin-1 pathway that traps macrophages in plaques.

Kathryn Pitkin Derose

Kathryn Pitkin Derose is an American health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who studies immigrants' health care access and community- and faith-based health interventions.

Kathryn V. Anderson

Kathryn V. Anderson (1952–2020) was an American developmental geneticist who showed that the Toll gene patterns the fruit fly body axis, work later linked to innate immunity.

Kathy D. Miller

Kathy D. Miller, also published as Kathy Miller, is an American medical oncologist at Indiana University School of Medicine who led the 2007 E2100 breast cancer trial.

Kathy K. Griendling

Kathy K. Griendling is a vascular biologist and the R. Wayne Alexander Professor of Medicine at Emory University, known for defining the role of NADPH oxidases in vascular disease.

Kathy L. Newell

Kathy L. Newell, MD, is a neuropathologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who studies Alzheimer's disease, co-authored tau filament structures, and leads a $4.8 million TDP-43 research grant.

Kathy Pritchard‐Jones

Kathy Pritchard-Jones is a British pediatric oncologist and emeritus professor at UCL, known for research on Wilms' tumour and for leading the International Society of Paediatric Oncology.

Kathy Rowan

Kathy Rowan, also known as Kathryn M. Rowan, is a British critical care researcher who founded and led ICNARC from 1994 to 2023, known for the ProMISe trial.

Kathy S. Albain

Kathy S. Albain, also published as Kathy Albain, is an American medical oncologist and clinical-trial researcher at Loyola University Chicago, and since 2019 a vice chair of the SWOG Cancer Research Network.

Katia Georgopoulos

Katia Georgopoulos is an American immunologist who identified Ikaros, a master regulator of lymphocyte development, and is Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.