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Kevin A. Schulman

Kevin A. Schulman is an American health services researcher and health economist, a Stanford School of Medicine professor since 2018 known for a 1999 NEJM study.

Kevin Brown (physician-scientist)

Kevin E. Brown is a physician-scientist in infectious diseases known for parvovirus B19 research and measles and rubella surveillance at the United Kingdom's national virus reference laboratory.

Kevin C. Kain

Kevin C. Kain is a Canadian physician-scientist in tropical medicine and malaria, a University of Toronto professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Molecular Parasitology.

Kevin C. Oeffinger

Kevin C. Oeffinger is an American family physician and cancer survivorship researcher, professor at the Duke Cancer Institute and founding director of its Center for Onco-Primary Care.

Kevin Campbell (biochemist)

Kevin Campbell is an American biochemist at the University of Iowa known for discovering the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex and showing that defective dystroglycan glycosylation causes muscular dystrophy.

Kevin Catt

Kevin J. Catt is a retired endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, known for research on gonadotropin and angiotensin receptors.

Kevin D. Corbett

Kevin D. Corbett is a structural biologist and professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UC San Diego since 2011, known for his work on meiotic chromosomes and bacterial anti-phage defenses.

Kevin D. Hall

Kevin D. Hall is an American physiologist and computational modeler who led NIH diet trials, including a 2019 study showing ultra-processed food causes overeating and weight gain.

Kevin Eggan

Kevin Eggan is a Harvard professor of stem cell and regenerative biology who created the first ALS patient-derived iPSC line in 2008 and won a MacArthur Fellowship.

Kevin Folta

Kevin Folta is an American plant molecular biologist at the University of Florida known for strawberry genomics research and science communication.

Kevin Fong

Kevin Fong is a British consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospitals, professor at UCL, and space-medicine researcher who founded its Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment physiology.

Kevin Foster (evolutionary biologist)

Kevin R. Foster, born 1976 in Paris, is an evolutionary biologist and microbiome researcher who holds the Chair of Microbiology at the University of Oxford.

Kevin G. Barry

Kevin G. Barry is an American nephrologist and US Army Medical Corps officer whose 1960s research established mannitol infusion as a treatment for oliguric renal failure.

Kevin G. Volpp

Kevin G. Volpp, also known as Kevin Volpp, is an American physician-scientist who directs CHIBE at the University of Pennsylvania, testing financial incentives for smoking cessation and medication adherence.

Kevin Grumbach

Kevin Grumbach is an American family physician and health services researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on primary care and US health policy.

Kevin J. Gaston

Kevin J. Gaston, born 1964, is a British ecologist and conservation biologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter, known for macroecology, urban ecology, and his 2000 Nature review "Global patterns in biodiversity".

Kevin J. Staley

Kevin J. Staley is an American neuroscientist and pediatric neurologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who studies neuronal chloride transport in epilepsy.

Kevin J. Tracey

Kevin J. Tracey is an American neurosurgeon and physician-scientist who discovered the inflammatory reflex, the vagus nerve circuit that regulates inflammation, and leads the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research.

Kevin Jones (orthopaedic surgeon)

Kevin B. Jones is a professor of orthopaedics at the University of Utah and an investigator at Huntsman Cancer Institute who studies the molecular biology of synovial sarcoma.

Kevin Kit Parker

Kevin Kit Parker is an American biomedical engineer, Tarr Family Professor at Harvard, who leads the Disease Biophysics Group and builds biohybrid robots powered by living heart muscle cells.

Kevin Litchfield

Kevin Litchfield is a cancer genomics and precision oncology researcher who leads the TIGI laboratory at the UCL Cancer Institute, studying why some patients respond to immunotherapy.

Kevin M. Brindle

Kevin M. Brindle, also published as Kevin Brindle, is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance at Cambridge, known for hyperpolarized carbon-13 MRI of tumor metabolism.

Kevin M. De Cock

Kevin M. De Cock is a Belgian-born infectious-diseases physician who led WHO's HIV/AIDS department in Geneva from 2006 to 2009, directed CDC Kenya, and retired from CDC in December 2020.

Kevin Marsh

Kevin Marsh is a British malariologist and Oxford professor who built and led the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust malaria research program in Kilifi, Kenya, for 25 years.

Kevin Shannon

Kevin M. Shannon is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for showing that the NF1 gene acts as a tumor suppressor in childhood myeloid leukemia.

Kevin Struhl

Kevin Struhl (born 1952) is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for work on transcriptional regulation and an epigenetic switch linking inflammation to cancer.

Kevin Verstrepen

Kevin J. Verstrepen is a Belgian yeast geneticist, full professor at KU Leuven and Science Director of the VIB, known for work on yeast evolution and beer domestication.

Kevin W. Eliceiri

Kevin W. Eliceiri is a professor of medical physics and biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he directs imaging research and leads development of the open-source ImageJ and Fiji software for analyzing biological images.

Kevin W. Plaxco

Kevin W. Plaxco is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering at UC Santa Barbara whose laboratory builds electrochemical aptamer-based biosensors for real-time molecular measurement in the living body.

Kevin Winthrop

Kevin L. Winthrop is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and physician at Oregon Health & Science University, known for nontuberculous mycobacteria research and national treatment guidelines.