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King K. Holmes
King Kennard Holmes (1937–2025) was an American infectious-disease physician-scientist at the University of Washington, known as the father of academic STI research and founding chair of its Department of Global Health.
King‐Wai Yau
King-Wai Yau is a Chinese-born neuroscientist, professor at Johns Hopkins since 1986, known for solving phototransduction in rods and cones and for studying photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
Kingsley Davis
Kingsley Davis was an American sociologist and demographer who, with Frank Notestein, first stated demographic transition theory in 1945 and coined "population explosion" and "zero population growth."
Kinh Luan Phan
Kinh Luan Phan is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies how stress and trauma shape the brain, and professor and chair of psychiatry at Ohio State.
Kiran Musunuru
Kiran Musunuru is a cardiologist and geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania known for CRISPR gene editing that permanently lowers cholesterol and for the first personalized CRISPR therapy.
Kirill A. Afonin
Kirill A. Afonin is a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who designs RNA and DNA nanoparticles for drug delivery and immune modulation.
Kirill A. Martemyanov
Kirill Martemyanov is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist known for mapping RGS protein regulation of GPCR signaling and identifying GPR158 as the first metabotropic glycine receptor.
Kirk Deitsch
Kirk W. Deitsch is a molecular biologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for studying how the malaria parasite evades the immune system.
Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith (1947–2020) was an American environmental health scientist at UC Berkeley who established household air pollution from cooking smoke as a major global health risk.
Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is a UCSF general internist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who became the 17th editor in chief of JAMA in 2022, the first Black person in the role.
Kirsten E. Lyke
Kirsten E. Lyke is an American physician-scientist and professor at the University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development, known for human challenge trials in malaria and dengue.
Kirsty Spalding
Kirsty L. Spalding, born 1972, is an Australian-born biologist and Professor of Adipocyte Biology at Karolinska Institutet, known for radiocarbon dating human fat cell turnover.
Kit D Longden
Kit D Longden (Kit Christopher Longden) is a computational and systems neuroscientist who studies how fruit flies see color, now a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里柴三郎) was a Japanese bacteriologist who first isolated the tetanus bacillus in pure culture, co-authored the 1890 antitoxin paper founding serum therapy, and built Japan's medical research institutions.
Kitt Falk Petersen
Kitt Falk Petersen is a Danish-trained physician and metabolism researcher, Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at Yale since 2012, known for measuring insulin resistance and mitochondrial function in living humans.
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi is an NIH Distinguished Investigator who leads the Genetic Mechanisms Section at NIDDK, known for reconstituting bacteriophage Mu transposition in vitro and for discovering DNA gyrase.
Kiyoshi Nagai
Kiyoshi Nagai (1949–2019) was a Japanese structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who determined the first near-atomic cryo-EM structures of the spliceosome.
Kiyoshi Shiga
Kiyoshi Shiga (志賀潔) was a Japanese bacteriologist who identified the dysentery bacillus during Tokyo's deadly 1897 epidemic, honored in the names Shigella and Shiga toxin.
Kiyoshi Takeda
Kiyoshi Takeda (竹田潔) is a Japanese immunologist, professor at Osaka University and director of its Immunology Frontier Research Center, known for defining Toll-like receptor signaling pathways.
Kıvanç Birsoy
Kıvanç Birsoy is a Turkish-born cancer biologist who heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University, known for discovering that the mitochondrial electron transport chain supports cell proliferation through aspartate synthesis.
Kjell Öberg
Kjell Öberg is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University who founded its endocrine oncology department, pioneered interferon treatment of carcinoid syndrome, and co-founded ENETS.
Kjell Tullus
Kjell Tullus is a Swedish-trained pediatric nephrologist, a children's kidney specialist, who has been a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London since 2002.
Klaus Aktories
Klaus Aktories is a German physician and pharmacologist known for work on bacterial protein toxins targeting Rho GTPases and the actin cytoskeleton, and professor at Freiburg from 1995 to 2018.
Klaus Eichmann
Klaus Eichmann, born 1939 in Kassel, is a German immunologist who showed antibody idiotype specificity is inherited through heavy-chain-linked genes, and directed the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg from 1981 to 2004.
Klaus F. Rabe
Klaus F. Rabe (born 1957) is a German pulmonologist and professor of pulmonary medicine at Kiel, known for the ETHOS COPD trial and dupilumab severe asthma trial.
Klaus H. Kaestner
Klaus H. Kaestner, born 1961 in Münster, is a German-born American geneticist and genetics professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for FoxA and intestinal stem cell research.
Klaus Hahlbrock (molecular biologist)
Klaus Hahlbrock is a German plant molecular biologist known for work on how plants activate defense genes against UV light and fungal attack, and on phenylpropanoid metabolism.
Klaus Ley
Klaus Ley is a German-born immunologist, professor at the Medical College of Georgia, known for the leukocyte adhesion cascade and for treating atherosclerosis as an immune disease.
Klaus Lindpaintner
Klaus Lindpaintner is an Austrian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and cardiovascular genetics, known for large 1990s prospective studies of gene polymorphisms and heart disease, and later industry roles at Roche, Pfizer, and Thermo Fisher.
Klaus M. Hahn
Klaus M. Hahn is an American cell biologist and Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for fluorescent biosensors and optogenetic tools like photoactivatable Rac1.