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Klaus Mosbach

Klaus Mosbach (1932–2024) was a Swedish biochemist and professor at Lund University, known for developing molecular imprinting and antibody mimics, including his 1993 Nature drug assay paper.

Klaus Palme

Klaus Palme, born 1951, is a German plant biologist at the University of Freiburg whose research established how the PIN carriers transport the hormone auxin between cells.

Klaus Pantel

Klaus Pantel, born 1960, is a German physician and oncologist directing the Institute of Tumor Biology in Hamburg, known for research on disseminated tumor cells.

Klaus Patau

Klaus Patau (1908–1975) was a German-born American geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose team first linked an extra chromosome 13 to Patau syndrome in 1960.

Klaus Peter Hofmann

Klaus Peter Hofmann (1943–2024) was a German biochemist and biophysicist whose pioneering research on the visual pigment rhodopsin shaped understanding of signal transmission in cell membranes and drug development.

Klaus Pfeffer

Klaus Pfeffer is a German infection immunologist who directs the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and won the Leibniz Prize in 2004.

Klaus Rajewsky

Klaus Rajewsky is a German immunologist known for his work on B cells, germinal centers, and developing conditional gene targeting in mice, leading a research group in Berlin.

Klaus Schulten

Klaus Schulten (1947–2016) was a German-born computational biophysicist who pioneered the "computational microscope" approach and led the Illinois group that developed the widely used NAMD and VMD programs.

Klaus‐Armin Nave

Klaus-Armin Nave is a German neuroscientist who studies myelin biology and neuron-glia interactions, directing the Department of Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen from 1999 to 2021.

Klaus‐Michael Debatin

Klaus-Michael Debatin, born 1952 in Karlsruhe, is a German pediatric hematologist-oncologist who helped discover the CD95 apoptosis pathway in 1989 and directed pediatrics at Ulm University Medical Center for 27 years.

Klim McPherson

Klim McPherson, born 1941, is a British epidemiologist and visiting professor at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences elected in 1998.

Knud H. Nierhaus

Knud H. Nierhaus (1941–2016) was a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, known for reconstituting the 50S ribosomal subunit and discovering the E site.

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915–2007) was a Norwegian-born American comparative physiologist at Duke University, best known for showing how camels survive the desert and for the leading textbook Animal Physiology.

Ko Okumura

Ko Okumura (奥村康, born 1942) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Juntendo University School of Medicine, known for his 1988 Nature paper linking perforin to complement C9.

Ko Shimamoto

Ko Shimamoto (島本功) was a Japanese plant molecular geneticist, professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, known for the first fertile transgenic rice and for identifying florigen receptors.

Kodi S. Ravichandran

Kodi S. Ravichandran is an immunologist who studies efferocytosis, the removal of dying cells, and leads the Division of Immunobiology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Kohei Miyazono

Kohei Miyazono (宮園浩平, born 1956) is a Japanese cancer biologist known for work on TGF-β signaling, the tumor microenvironment, and metastasis, and is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Tokyo.

Kohei Shitara

Kohei Shitara (設樂 紘平) is a Japanese medical oncologist who directs gastrointestinal oncology at the National Cancer Center Hospital East and led the DESTINY-Gastric01 and SPOTLIGHT trials.

Koichi Akashi

Koichi Akashi is a Japanese hematologist and professor at Kyushu University known for identifying the blood system's common lymphoid and myeloid progenitors and for leukemia stem cell research.

Koichiro Tamura

Koichiro Tamura (田村 浩一郎) is a Japanese evolutionary biologist, professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, known for developing MEGA, one of the most widely used tools in molecular phylogenetics.

Koichiro Tsunewaki

Koichiro Tsunewaki (1930–2022) was a Japanese plant geneticist and Kyoto University professor who classified wheat cytoplasms and pinpointed common wheat's origin near the Caspian Sea.

Kōichirō Tsunewaki

Kōichirō Tsunewaki (常脇恒一郎, 1930–2022) was a Japanese plant geneticist, a Kyoto University professor and Japan Academy member known for plasmon analysis that traced wheat's maternal lineages and located common wheat's origin near the Caspian Sea.

Koji Kimata

Koji Kimata (木全 弘治) is a Japanese cell biologist and glycobiologist known for expression-cloning a eukaryotic hyaluronan synthase and showing the three mammalian HAS isoforms differ enzymatically.

Kôji Uchida

Kôji Uchida (内田 浩二) is a Japanese food chemist and redox biologist, a Project Professor at the University of Tokyo who studies protein modification in aging and inflammation.

Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson

Kojo S.J. Elenitoba-Johnson is an American molecular pathologist specializing in lymphoma and leukemia, inaugural chair of pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2022.

Kole T. Roybal

Kole T. Roybal is an American immunologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for engineering synthetic Notch receptors that give T cells customized therapeutic response programs.

Komal Jhaveri

Komal Jhaveri is a breast medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she heads the Endocrine Therapy Research Program and led the INAVO120 and EMBER-3 trials.

Konrad Basler

Konrad Basler, born 1960, is a Swiss developmental biologist and professor at the University of Zurich who studies Wnt and Hedgehog signaling, from Drosophila development to colorectal cancer.

Konrad Beyreuther

Konrad Beyreuther, born 1941, is a German molecular biologist known for identifying the amyloid protein of Alzheimer's plaques and for characterizing the amyloid precursor protein at Heidelberg.

Konrad Bloch

Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-born American biochemist at Harvard University who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.