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Kenneth L. Rock

Kenneth L. Rock is an American immunologist, Chair and Professor of Pathology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for work on antigen presentation and danger signals.

Kenneth L. Tyler

Kenneth L. Tyler is an American physician-scientist in neuroinfectious disease at the University of Colorado, known for the 2005 NEJM report linking natalizumab to PML.

Kenneth Lacovara

Kenneth Lacovara is an American paleontologist best known for discovering and naming Dreadnoughtus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found, and for founding Rowan University's Edelman Fossil Park & Museum.

Kenneth Lange

Kenneth Lamar Lange is an American biomathematician and statistician who holds a chair in computational genetics at UCLA, co-created ADMIXTURE, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Kenneth M. Langa

Kenneth M. Langa is an American general internist and dementia epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, co-director of the Health and Retirement Study and a 2024 National Academy of Medicine electee.

Kenneth M. Merz

Kenneth M. Merz Jr., also published as Kenneth Merz, is an American computational chemist known for the AMBER force field and computer-aided drug design, and a 2010 American Chemical Society award recipient.

Kenneth M. Rosen

Kenneth M. Rosen (1937-1982) was an American cardiologist who helped establish clinical cardiac electrophysiology, leading cardiology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.

Kenneth M. Yamada

Kenneth M. Yamada is an NIH Distinguished Investigator and cell biologist who leads a Cell Biology Section at NIDCR, known for work on fibronectin and 3D cell migration.

Kenneth Mather

Kenneth Mather (1911–1990) was a British geneticist who founded the Birmingham school of biometrical genetics, coined the term polygene, and became the University of Birmingham's first professor of genetics in 1948.

Kenneth McIntosh (pediatric virologist)

Kenneth McIntosh is an American pediatric virologist and infectious-disease specialist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard, known for early HIV diagnosis in infants and childhood pneumonia.

Kenneth Murphy

Kenneth M. Murphy is an American immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Kenneth Murray (molecular biologist)

Sir Kenneth Murray (1930–2013) was a British molecular biologist at the University of Edinburgh who developed the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine, co-founded Biogen, and gave away his vaccine royalties.

Kenneth N. Timmis

Kenneth Nigel Timmis, born in 1946, is a British molecular microbiologist known for plasmid biology and engineered pollutant-degrading bacteria, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.

Kenneth Offit

Kenneth Offit is an American medical oncologist and cancer geneticist who leads clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan Kettering and identified the most common Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA founder mutation.

Kenneth Olden

Kenneth Olden, born 1938 in Parrottsville, Tennessee, is an American cell biologist known for fibronectin research and for directing the NIEHS from 1991 to 2005.

Kenneth Paigen

Kenneth Paigen (1927-2020) was an American geneticist known for studying developmental gene regulation in mice and for directing The Jackson Laboratory in Maine from 1989 to 2003.

Kenneth Poss

Kenneth D. Poss is an American regenerative biologist known for discovering that zebrafish fully regenerate their hearts after injury, and now directs Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute.

Kenneth R. Chien

Kenneth R. Chien is an American cardiovascular scientist whose laboratory identified the progenitor cells that build the mammalian heart; he is now Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet.

Kenneth Rosenfield

Kenneth Rosenfield is an American interventional cardiologist who heads vascular medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for trials like BEST-CLI and for creating the pulmonary embolism response team concept.

Kenneth S. Kendler

Kenneth S. Kendler, born 1950, is an American psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University who directs the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and studies schizophrenia.

Kenneth S. Korach

Kenneth S. Korach is an American reproductive endocrinologist who created estrogen receptor knockout mice and reported the first well-characterized human case of estrogen resistance in 1994.

Kenneth S. Kosik

Kenneth S. Kosik is an American neuroscientist and physician at UC Santa Barbara who helped discover tau in Alzheimer's tangles and studies a large Colombian family with hereditary Alzheimer's disease.

Kenneth S. Polonsky

Kenneth S. Polonsky is a South African-born physician-scientist and diabetes researcher at the University of Chicago, known for work on insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes and beta-cell failure.

Kenneth S. Warren

Kenneth S. Warren (1929–1996) was an American physician and immunoparasitologist who studied schistosomiasis, argued the disease was immunologic, and led the Rockefeller Foundation's program on the great neglected diseases.

Kenneth Stewart Cole

Kenneth Stewart Cole (1900–1984) was an American biophysicist who measured the electrical properties of nerve membranes and in whose institute the first voltage clamp was built.

Kenneth Stuart

Kenneth D. Stuart is an American molecular parasitologist who discovered RNA editing in trypanosomes, founded the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

Kenneth T. Brown

Kenneth T. Brown was an American retinal physiologist at the University of California San Francisco whose intraretinal recording experiments first established the electrical responses of vertebrate photoreceptors.

Kenneth V. Thimann

Kenneth V. Thimann (1904–1997) was an English-born American plant physiologist who isolated the plant hormone auxin and identified it as indole-3-acetic acid, winning the 1982 Balzan Prize.

Kenneth W. Kinzler

Kenneth W. Kinzler is an American molecular geneticist at Johns Hopkins whose laboratory identified the APC gene, invented SAGE and digital PCR, and helped establish liquid biopsies.

Kenneth W. Mahaffey

Kenneth W. Mahaffey is an American cardiologist and clinical trials researcher who directs the Stanford Center for Clinical Research and is a Stanford associate dean.