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Konrad Hochedlinger

Konrad Hochedlinger is an Austrian-born stem cell biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for his work on nuclear reprogramming and iPS cells.

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (1903–1989) was an Austrian zoologist and ethologist who, with Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch, founded ethology, winning the 1973 Nobel Prize.

Konrad P. Kording

Konrad P. Kording is a computational neuroscientist and PIK professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2017, known for Bayesian models of sensorimotor learning and co-founding Neuromatch.

Konstantin Severinov

Konstantin Severinov (Северинов Константин Викторович) is a Russian-American molecular biologist known for studies of bacterial RNA polymerase and CRISPR-Cas systems at Rutgers University and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Konstantina M. Stanković

Konstantina M. Stanković is an American otolaryngologist and auditory neuroscientist who became chair of otolaryngology at Stanford in 2021, researching gene therapy and other approaches to hearing restoration.

Konstantinos Konstantopoulos

Konstantinos Konstantopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Κωνσταντόπουλος) is a Greek-American cell biologist and bioengineer at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds the inaugural William H. Schwarz Professorship and studies cancer metastasis.

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, often published as Kostas T. Konstantinidis, is a microbial genomics researcher at Georgia Tech who proposed average nucleotide identity for defining bacterial species.

Korbinian Brodmann

Korbinian Brodmann was a German neurologist who divided the human cerebral cortex into 43 numbered areas in his 1909 monograph, a map neuroscientists still use to localize brain imaging data.

Koreaki Ito

Koreaki Ito (伊藤 維昭) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Kyoto Sangyo University known for work on protein export, disulfide bond formation, and translation in E. coli.

Kornélia Polyák

Kornélia Polyák (Kornelia Polyak) is a Hungarian-born physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for cloning p27Kip1 in 1994 and for research on breast tumor evolution and heterogeneity.

Kory Lavine

Kory J. Lavine is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine who studies how immune cells drive heart disease and repair.

Kosaku Uyeda

Kosaku Uyeda is a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who discovered fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, a potent activator of glycolysis, and ChREBP.

Kosuke Morikawa

Kosuke Morikawa is a Japanese structural biochemist trained at the University of Tokyo, known for crystal structures of the RuvC resolvase and T4 endonuclease V.

Kouji Matsushima

Kouji Matsushima (松島 綱治) is a Japanese immunologist known for discovering the chemokines IL-8 and MCP-1, which recruit white blood cells to inflamed tissue, and for work that led to the cancer drug mogamulizumab.

Kozo Kaibuchi

Kozo Kaibuchi (貝淵 弘三) is a Japanese molecular biologist and biochemist known for discovering Rho-kinase (ROCK) and for work on small GTPase signaling and neuronal polarity.

Kozo Tomita

Kozo Tomita (富田 耕造) is a Japanese structural biologist and molecular biologist who studies RNA, and has been professor of RNA biology at the University of Tokyo since 2016, known for work on the CCA-adding enzyme.

Krešimir Krnjević

Krešimir Krnjević (1927–2021) was a Croatian-born Canadian neurophysiologist at McGill University who helped establish glutamate and GABA as the brain's principal transmitters, and later studied anesthetics and hypoxia.

Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen is a Danish computational structural biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for long-timescale protein folding simulations and for simulating conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome.

Kris V. Kowdley

Kris V. Kowdley, also published as Kris Kowdley, is an American hepatologist who designs and leads international clinical trials of new treatments for hepatitis C and other liver diseases.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Krishna K. Niyogi is an American plant biologist at UC Berkeley known for genetic analysis of photoprotection in photosynthesis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Krishna V. Shenoy

Krishna V. Shenoy, also known as Krishna Shenoy, is an American neuroscientist and neural engineer at Stanford University who co-founded Neuralink and led brain–computer interface research.

Krishnansu S. Tewari

Krishnansu S. Tewari, full name Krishnansu Sujata Tewari, is an American gynecologic oncologist at UC Irvine who led the GOG 240 trial establishing bevacizumab in cervical cancer.

Krista F. Huybrechts

Krista F. Huybrechts is an American-based pharmacoepidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who studies the safety of prescription medications taken during pregnancy.

Krista M. Lisdahl

Krista M. Lisdahl is an American clinical neuropsychologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee who studies how chronic cannabis, alcohol, and nicotine use affect the developing adolescent brain.

Kristen Brennand

Kristen J. Brennand is a neuroscientist and stem cell biologist who is Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, known for modeling schizophrenia with patient-derived stem cells.

Kristen J. Tomaszewski

Kristen J. Tomaszewski is a renal pathologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and known for work on complement detection and the B-HOT gene panel in transplant biopsies.

Kristen M Lee

Kristen M. Lee is an American neuroscientist who studies how fruit flies build and maintain the neural circuits controlling locomotion, working at HHMI and the University of Oregon.

Kristen Marhaver

Kristen Marhaver is a coral reef biologist at the CARMABI Foundation in Curaçao, known for the first successful breeding of threatened Caribbean pillar coral and larval seeding methods.

Kristen Pleil

Kristen Pleil is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, who studies how sex and stress hormones regulate alcohol use in mice.

Kristian Andersen

Kristian G. Andersen is a Danish-born immunologist and genomicist at Scripps Research who studies how emerging viruses like SARS-CoV-2, Zika, and Ebola emerge and spread.