edgepedia

Life and health scientists

18,587 articles

Kevin Y Njabo

Kevin Y Njabo is a Cameroonian conservation biologist and ornithologist who studies African rainforest birds and avian malaria, and joined Texas A&M in 2024 after helping establish UCLA's Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon.

Khalid Iqbal

Khalid Iqbal is a neurochemist, known as the "father of tau," who discovered that Alzheimer's paired helical filaments are made of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

Khalid Salaita

Khalid Salaita is a biophysical chemist and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University, known for inventing the first molecular tension probe and winning the 2023 Merck Future Insight Prize.

Khandan Keyomarsi

Khandan Keyomarsi is a cancer biologist and professor of experimental radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for linking low-molecular-weight cyclin E to breast cancer prognosis.

Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy

Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy is a Canadian physician-scientist in clinical nutrition and gastroenterology at the University of Toronto, known for developing the Subjective Global Assessment and pioneering home parenteral nutrition in 1971.

Kian Fan Chung

Kian Fan Chung, also published as K.F. Chung, is a respiratory physician-scientist at Imperial College London known for severe asthma research and the 2017 Oxford Street pollution study.

Kiang Liu

Kiang Liu is a cardiovascular epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for the CARDIA study of heart-disease risk from young adulthood into middle age.

Kim A. Eagle

Kim A. Eagle is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Frankel Cardiovascular Center and founded the aortic dissection registry IRAD in 1996.

Kim Bottomly

H. Kim Bottomly is an American immunologist and Professor Emeritus at Yale School of Medicine who served as the 13th president of Wellesley College from 2007 to 2016.

Kim D. Janda

Kim D. Janda is an American medicinal chemist and immunologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for pioneering vaccines against drugs of abuse.

Kim D. Pruitt

Kim D. Pruitt is an American bioinformatician who initiated and led NCBI's RefSeq database, joining NCBI in 1998 and serving as its Acting Director since October 2023.

Kim Fox

Kim Michael Fox, born 1948, is a British cardiologist, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for trials of ivabradine and angina, and ESC president 2006–2008.

Kim Gorgens

Kim Gorgens is a clinical neuropsychologist and professor at the University of Denver whose research documents traumatic brain injury in criminal justice populations and shaped Colorado concussion laws.

Kim Lewis

Kim Lewis is a microbiologist and University Distinguished Professor who directs the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Boston and discovered teixobactin, reported in 2015.

Kim Mulholland

Edward Kim Mulholland is an Australian pediatrician, vaccinologist, and epidemiologist known for Hib and pneumococcal vaccine trials in the Gambia that shaped childhood pneumonia prevention in developing countries.

Kim Nasmyth

Kim Nasmyth is an English geneticist known for discovering cohesin, the protein complex that holds sister chromatids together, and for the ring model of chromosome cohesion.

Kim Newton

Kim Newton is a Distinguished Scientist at Genentech in South San Francisco who studies cell death, known for work on RIPK3, necroptosis, and ubiquitin-chain editing.

Kim Orth

Kim Orth is an American biochemist and microbiologist, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for discovering how bacteria modify host proteins through AMPylation and Ser/Thr acetylation.

Kim Papp

Kim A. Papp is a Canadian dermatologist who founded Probity Medical Research in Waterloo, Ontario, and ran more than 170 psoriasis trials, co-authoring over 375 publications.

Kim Sneppen

Kim Sneppen (born 1960 in Copenhagen) is a Danish physicist and professor of complex systems and biophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, best known for the Bak–Sneppen model of evolution.

Kimberly Callan

Kimberly Callan is a Canadian-trained ancient DNA researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Boston, co-author on landmark ancient-genomics papers in Science and Nature.

Kimberly G. Noble

Kimberly G. Noble is an American neuroscientist and pediatrician, professor at Columbia University, known for research linking family income to children's brain development and for leading Baby's First Years.

Kimberly M. Huber

Kimberly Huber is a neuroscientist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies synaptic plasticity, dendritic protein synthesis, and fragile X syndrome.

Kimberly Nixon

Kimberly Nixon is a neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas at Austin, known for discovering alcohol's inhibitory effect on adult neurogenesis and receiving a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.

Kimberly Prather

Kimberly Prather is an American atmospheric chemist at UC San Diego who invented aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry and became an international leader on airborne virus transmission during COVID-19.

Kimberly Stegmaier

Kimberly Stegmaier is an American pediatric oncologist and cancer biologist who chairs pediatric oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and studies therapeutic targets in childhood leukemias and solid tumors.

Kimford J. Meador

Kimford J. Meador, also published as Kimford Meador, is an American epileptologist and Professor of Neurology at Stanford University whose NEAD study showed fetal valproate exposure lowers childhood IQ.

Kimio Akagawa

Kimio Akagawa (赤川 公朗) is a Japanese neurophysiologist named by the 2013 Nobel Assembly among prior identifiers of the SNARE proteins; he cloned HPC-1, later shown to be syntaxin 1A.

Kimishige Ishizaka

Kimishige Ishizaka (石坂公成, 1925–2018) was a Japanese-born immunologist who, working with his wife Teruko, discovered immunoglobulin E in 1966, the antibody class that carries allergic reactivity, and later led the La Jolla Institute.

Kinam Park

Kinam Park is a drug delivery scientist and Showalter Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, known for work on polymers and hydrogels for controlled drug release.