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Kenneth Carl Anderson

Kenneth Carl Anderson is an American hematologist-oncologist and multiple myeloma researcher who directs the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber and led preclinical work on bortezomib, FDA-approved in 2003.

Kenneth Cusi

Kenneth Cusi is an Argentina-trained physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Florida, known for establishing the diabetes drug pioglitazone as a treatment for NASH.

Kenneth D. Bloch

Kenneth D. Bloch (1956–2014) was an American physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for research on atrial natriuretic peptide, nitric oxide, and BMP signaling.

Kenneth D. Irvine

Kenneth D. Irvine is a cell and developmental biologist at Rutgers University known for identifying the Fringe signaling molecule and for linking cytoskeletal tension to Hippo signaling.

Kenneth D. Roeder

Kenneth D. Roeder (1908–1979) was an English-born insect physiologist at Tufts University, a founding figure of American insect physiology and a pioneer of neuroethology, best known for showing how noctuid moths hear bats.

Kenneth D. Tartof

Kenneth D. Tartof is a molecular geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia known for Drosophila work on ribosomal RNA genes, position-effect variegation, and trans-sensing effects.

Kenneth E. Sherman

Kenneth E. Sherman is an American hepatologist and Gould Professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, first author of the 2011 ILLUMINATE telaprevir trial for hepatitis C.

Kenneth E. Warner

Kenneth E. Warner is an American health economist at the University of Michigan, a leading scholar of tobacco control elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1996.

Kenneth E.L. McColl

Kenneth E.L. McColl, also known as Kenneth E. McColl, is a Scottish gastroenterologist at the University of Glasgow known for research on Helicobacter pylori infection and peptic ulcer disease.

Kenneth F. Maxcy

Kenneth F. Maxcy (1889–1966) was an American epidemiologist who showed that the mild typhus of the southeastern United States was flea-borne murine typhus, carried by rats.

Kenneth G. C. Smith

Kenneth G. C. Smith, known as Ken Smith, is an Australian clinical immunologist and nephrologist who has been the seventh Director of WEHI in Melbourne since April 2024.

Kenneth G. Mann

Kenneth G. Mann, born Kenneth Gerard Mann, is an American biochemist and hemostasis researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, known for the prothrombinase complex.

Kenneth G. Saag

Kenneth G. Saag is an American rheumatologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for osteoporosis trials and as the 85th President of the American College of Rheumatology.

Kenneth H. Fischbeck

Kenneth H. Fischbeck is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist who identified the gene mutation causing Kennedy's disease and served as chief of the Neurogenetics Branch at NINDS.

Kenneth H. Gabbay

Kenneth H. Gabbay is a physician-scientist in diabetes research at Baylor College of Medicine, known for work on glycosylated hemoglobin, the sorbitol pathway, and aldose reductase.

Kenneth H. Mayer

Kenneth H. Mayer is an American infectious-disease physician, Harvard professor, and HIV prevention researcher who has led research at Fenway Health in Boston since 1980.

Kenneth H. Nealson

Kenneth H. Nealson is an environmental microbiologist and geobiologist known for discovering quorum sensing and extracellular electron transfer, and for his astrobiology work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and USC.

Kenneth H. Wolfe

Kenneth H. Wolfe is an Irish geneticist and Professor of Genomic Evolution at University College Dublin, best known for discovering an ancient whole-genome duplication in baker's yeast.

Kenneth J. Kemphues

Kenneth J. Kemphues (born 1950) is an American developmental biologist and geneticist, professor emeritus at Cornell University, best known for discovering the par genes and PAR proteins.

Kenneth J. Leveno

Kenneth J. Leveno (1941–2020) was an American obstetrician and maternal-fetal medicine researcher at UT Southwestern, Chief of Obstetrics at Parkland Hospital for over 20 years.

Kenneth J. Marians

Kenneth J. Marians is an American molecular biologist who holds the William E. Snee Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for work on replication fork restart and DNA topology.

Kenneth J. Mukamal

Kenneth J. Mukamal is an American physician and Harvard professor who practices general medicine at BIDMC, known for cohort studies of alcohol drinking patterns, dementia risk, and blood-pressure treatment.

Kenneth J. Rothman

Kenneth J. Rothman is an American epidemiologist, professor at Boston University and Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at RTI International, known for the textbook Modern Epidemiology and for founding the journal Epidemiology in 1990.

Kenneth J. Rothschild

Kenneth J. Rothschild is an American biophysicist and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Boston University, known for FTIR difference spectroscopy of rhodopsins and for founding AmberGen.

Kenneth K. Kídd

Kenneth K. Kidd is an American human geneticist at Yale University known for human population genetics, forensic DNA typing, and building ALFRED, the ALlele FREquency Database.

Kenneth K. Wu

Kenneth K. Wu (伍焜玉), nicknamed "Mr. Platelet" in Taiwan, is a physician-scientist known for platelet activation research and for leading Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes from 2006 to 2012.

Kenneth Kaushansky

Kenneth Kaushansky is an American hematologist known for discovering thrombopoietin, the hormone regulating platelet production, and for serving as Editor-in-Chief of Blood and Dean of Stony Brook University's medical school.

Kenneth Keegstra

Kenneth Keegstra, born 1945, is an American plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for defining how proteins are imported into chloroplasts and for plant cell wall biosynthesis.

Kenneth L. Davis

Kenneth L. Davis is an American psychiatrist who created the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale and led the Mount Sinai Health System as CEO from 2003 to 2023.

Kenneth L. Melmon

Kenneth L. Melmon was a Stanford clinical pharmacologist who chaired the department of medicine and showed that histamine acts as an immunoregulator on human T lymphocytes.