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Kenneth W. Warren

Kenneth W. Warren (1911–2001) was an American surgeon specializing in pancreas, liver, and biliary tract surgery who spent his career at the Lahey Clinic in Boston.

Kenneth Walsh (molecular biologist)

Kenneth Walsh is an American molecular biologist known for showing that adiponectin protects the heart, and now leads the Hematovascular Biology Center at the University of Virginia.

Kenneth Zaret

Kenneth S. Zaret is an American developmental biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for discovering pioneer transcription factors and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Kenneth Μ. Moser

Kenneth M. Moser (1928–1997) was an American pulmonary physician who founded and led the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UCSD from 1968 to 1997.

Kenong Xu

Kenong Xu is a plant genomicist and Associate Professor at Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, who won a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for his work on apple fruit acidity genomics.

Kenrad E. Nelson

Kenrad E. Nelson, also known as Kenrad Nelson, was an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and Johns Hopkins professor known for HIV and hepatitis C research, who died in 2022.

Kensaku Mizuno

Kensaku Mizuno is a Japanese cell biologist known for identifying LIM-kinase and Slingshot, which regulate cofilin in actin remodeling, and is now emeritus professor at Tohoku University.

Kent A. Sepkowitz

Kent A. Sepkowitz, also known as Kent Sepkowitz, is an American infectious diseases physician who spent nearly four decades at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Kent Berridge

Kent Berridge is a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan, known for distinguishing reward "wanting" from "liking" in the brain and for the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction.

Kent Lewandrowski

Kent Lewandrowski is an American clinical pathologist, Associate Chief for Laboratory and Molecular Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard professor, known for point-of-care testing research.

Kenton J. Swartz

Kenton J. Swartz is an American biophysicist who has led the Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section at NINDS, NIH, since 2003, known for work on how voltage-gated ion channels sense membrane voltage.

Kenya Honda

Kenya Honda (本田 賢也) is a Japanese immunologist and microbiome researcher, professor at Keio University School of Medicine and a RIKEN team director known for identifying gut bacteria that shape immune responses.

Keolu Fox

Keolu Fox is a Native Hawaiian geneticist and anthropologist at UC San Diego who studies Indigenous genomics and co-founded the Native BioData Consortium, the first Indigenous-led nonprofit research institute in the United States.

Keping Xie

Keping Xie is a pancreatic cancer researcher and professor at MD Anderson in Houston, known for a 1995 iNOS gene study and establishing KLF4's role in pancreatic carcinogenesis.

Keqiang Ye

Keqiang Ye (叶克强) is a Chinese neuroscientist who discovered the AEP enzyme driving Alzheimer's pathology and developed the α-synuclein PET tracer F0502B; he is dean at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology.

Keqiong Ye

Keqiong Ye (叶克穷) is a Chinese structural biologist who has led a research group at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, since 2014, known for crystal structures of box C/D and H/ACA snoRNPs.

Kerr L. White

Kerr Lachlan White (1917–2014) was a Canadian-born physician and epidemiologist known as the founder of health services research in the United States and for his 1961 paper "The Ecology of Medical Care."

Kerry Bloom

Kerry Bloom, also known as Kerry S. Bloom, is an American cell biologist, the Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill, known for work on centromeres.

Kerry J. Ressler

Kerry J. Ressler is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who studies the biology of fear and PTSD, serving as chief scientific officer at McLean Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School.

Kerry James Ressler

Kerry James Ressler is an American psychiatrist-scientist who serves as Chief Scientific Officer of McLean Hospital, is a professor at Harvard Medical School, and studies the neurobiology of fear and PTSD.

Kerry L. Lee

Kerry L. Lee is a biostatistician, Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University, who led statistical and data coordinating centers for major NIH-funded cardiovascular trials, including STICH, PROMISE, and SCD-HeFT.

Kerstin Amann

Kerstin Amann (born 1963) is a German nephropathologist, professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, known for her 2003 New England Journal of Medicine study on nephron number and hypertension.

Kerstin Göpfrich

Kerstin Göpfrich is a physicist and synthetic biologist who has been a full professor at Heidelberg University's ZMBH since 2022, working on DNA and RNA nanotechnology for synthetic cells.

Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is a Swedish geneticist and professor of comparative genomics at Uppsala University who led the 2005 dog genome sequencing and the Zoonomia project comparing 240 mammalian genomes.

Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger

Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger (born 1988) is a Swiss legal and medical scholar who has been professor of regulation in law, medicine, and technology at the University of Zurich since 2022.

Kerwyn Huang

Kerwyn Casey Huang is a biophysicist and LeRa Professor at Stanford University known for work on bacterial cell shape, gut microbiome organization, and NIH Director's awards.

Ketan J. Patel

Ketan J. Patel is a molecular biologist and physician who directs the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford and discovered that aldehydes are a major source of DNA damage.

Kevan C. Herold

Kevan C. Herold is an American immunologist and endocrinologist at Yale School of Medicine known for leading the clinical development of teplizumab, the first drug approved to delay type 1 diabetes.

Kevan Shokat

Kevan Shokat, born 1964, is an American chemical biologist at UCSF and UC Berkeley whose K-Ras pocket discovery led to sotorasib, the first drug against the undruggable cancer protein.

Kevin A. Janes

Kevin A. Janes is an American systems biologist and bioengineer at the University of Virginia, known for data-driven modeling of signaling networks controlling cell death.