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Kazuo Shinozaki
Kazuo Shinozaki, born in 1949, is a Japanese plant molecular biologist at RIKEN who discovered the major gene-regulatory systems governing plant drought response and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Kazuo Tsubota
Kazuo Tsubota (坪田一男) is a Japanese ophthalmologist known for research on dry eye, myopia, and corneal regenerative medicine, who was professor of ophthalmology at Keio University from 2004 to 2021 and now leads Tsubota Laboratory.
Kazushige Touhara
Kazushige Touhara (東原 和成) is a Japanese sensory neuroscientist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for discovering the mouse pheromone ESP1 and showing insect olfactory receptors are ion channels.
Kazutaka Katoh
Kazutaka Katoh (加藤 和貴) is a Japanese computational biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo, known for developing the widely used MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program.
Kazutoshi Mori
Kazutoshi Mori (森和俊, born 1958) is a Japanese cell biologist who discovered the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system, and shared the 2014 Lasker Award.
Kazuwa Nakao
Kazuwa Nakao (中尾 一和) is a Japanese endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Kyoto University whose laboratory carried natriuretic peptides and leptin from discovery into clinical use.
Kazuyuki Sugahara
Kazuyuki Sugahara (菅原一幸) is a Japanese biochemist known for his work on glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis, including the 2001 cloning of human chondroitin synthase, who held professorships at Kobe Pharmaceutical and Hokkaido Universities.
Ke Shuai
Ke Shuai is a professor of hematology-oncology and biological chemistry at UCLA who helped establish the JAK–STAT signaling pathway and studies PIAS proteins that restrain inflammation and immunity.
Ke Xu
Ke Xu, born 1982, is a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who develops super-resolution microscopy and single-molecule tracking methods for living cells.
Kedar K. Adour
Kedar K. Adour was an American otolaryngologist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, who ran large facial palsy studies and argued prednisone should replace surgical decompression.
Keersten Ricks
Keersten Ricks is an American infectious-disease diagnostician and epidemiologist at USAMRIID known for immunoassay-based biosurveillance of emerging diseases and a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Keertan Dheda
Keertan Dheda is a South African pulmonologist and tuberculosis researcher who heads pulmonology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital and directs its Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity.
Kees Moeliker
Kees Moeliker is a Dutch biologist and former director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam who won the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for a paper on mallard necrophilia.
Keffer Hartline
Keffer Hartline, full name Haldan Keffer Hartline, was an American physiologist who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the neurophysiology of vision.
Kei Sato
Kei Sato (佐藤 佳) is a Japanese virologist and professor of systems virology at the University of Tokyo, known for characterizing SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron.
Keiichi Fukuda
Keiichi Fukuda (福田恵一) is a Japanese cardiovascular scientist and regenerative medicine researcher, professor emeritus at Keio University who founded the iPS cell heart therapy company Heartseed.
Keiichi I. Nakayama
Keiichi I. Nakayama (中山敬一) is a Japanese cancer biologist at Kyushu University and Institute of Science Tokyo known for p27 knockout mice and ubiquitin ligases.
Keiichi Namba
Keiichi Namba (難波啓一) is a Japanese structural biologist and biophysicist at Osaka University who solved the first atomic structures of macromolecular assemblies without crystallization, winning the 2012 Japan Academy Prize.
Keiji Tanaka
Keiji Tanaka (田中啓二; 1949–2024) was a Japanese molecular biologist who discovered and characterized the proteasome, the cell's protein-degrading machinery, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, winning the Japan Academy Prize.
Keiko Ozato
Keiko Ozato is a senior investigator in immunology at NIH's NICHD, where she has led the Section on Molecular Genetics of Immunity for over 30 years and discovered IRF8.
Keiko U. Torii
Keiko U. Torii (鳥居 啓子) is a plant developmental biologist known for her work on stomatal patterning and ERECTA receptor kinase signaling, and an HHMI investigator at UT Austin.
Keisuke Nagao
Keisuke Nagao (永尾 圭介) is a Japanese physician-scientist who studies how hair follicles organize skin immunity and became dermatology chair at Keio University in 2026.
Keith A. Hruska
Keith A. Hruska is an American nephrologist and professor of pediatrics, medicine, and cell biology at Washington University in St. Louis, known for work on the CKD-mineral bone disorder.
Keith A. Joiner
Keith A. Joiner is an American immunologist and parasitologist known for showing how Toxoplasma gondii survives inside human cells, and later a health economist at the University of Arizona.
Keith A. Josephs
Keith A. Josephs (Keith Josephs) is a neurologist and Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for reclassifying progressive supranuclear palsy and frontotemporal dementia.
Keith A.A. Fox
Keith A.A. Fox is a British cardiologist who held the Duke of Edinburgh Professorship of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh and led trials shaping acute coronary syndrome treatment.
Keith B. Elkon
Keith B. Elkon is an immunologist and rheumatologist who led the University of Washington Division of Rheumatology from 2001 to 2021 and is known for lupus research on antiribosomal P antibodies and clearance of dying cells.
Keith Brew
Keith Brew is a biochemist who proposed α-lactalbumin and lysozyme arose from a duplicated gene, determined transferrin's structure, and studied TIMP metalloproteinase inhibitors for decades.
Keith Burridge
Keith Burridge is a British-born cell biologist known for discovering focal adhesion proteins such as talin and paxillin and for showing how RhoA drives their assembly.
Keith C. Norris
Keith C. Norris is an American nephrologist at UCLA who studies chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and health disparities, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.