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Kunihiko Suzuki
Kunihiko Suzuki was a Japanese-born American neurochemist and neurologist, Professor Emeritus at UNC, who identified the enzyme defect behind Krabbe disease, proposed the psychosine hypothesis, and died in 2025.
Kunihiro Hattori
Kunihiro Hattori (服部邦洋) is a Japanese antibody engineer who conceived and led creation of emicizumab, the first bispecific antibody therapeutic for hemophilia A, earning the 2026 Lasker–DeBakey award.
Kunihiro Matsumoto
Kunihiro Matsumoto (松本 邦弘) is a Japanese molecular geneticist, professor at Nagoya University from 1990 to 2017, known for yeast signal transduction and C. elegans nerve-cell regeneration research.
Kunio Okuda
Kunio Okuda (奥田 邦雄, 1921–2003) was a Japanese hepatologist at Chiba University, a pioneer in liver cancer research and creator of the Okuda staging system.
Kunitada Shimotohno
Kunitada Shimotohno (下遠野 邦忠) is a Japanese molecular biologist whose Tokyo laboratory cloned the Japanese hepatitis C virus genome in 1990, work cited in the 2020 Nobel Prize background.
Kuo-Fen Lee
Kuo-Fen Lee, born 1959 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is a molecular neurobiologist and professor at the Salk Institute known for defining p75 neurotrophin receptor function through gene targeting.
Kurt Benirschke
Kurt Benirschke (1924–2018) was a German American pathologist and geneticist at UC San Diego who founded placental pathology as a discipline and created the San Diego Zoo's Frozen Zoo.
Kurt Drickamer
Kurt Drickamer is a biochemist holding the Chair in Biochemistry at Imperial College London, known for classifying animal lectins and coining the term C-type lectin.
Kurt Einarsson
Kurt Einarsson is a Swedish physician and researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm known for studies of hepatic cholesterol and bile acid metabolism, aging, and gallstone disease.
Kurt G. Beam
Kurt G. Beam is an American muscle physiologist and ion-channel researcher, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Kurt Hirschhorn
Kurt Hirschhorn (1926–2022) was an Austrian-born American pediatrician and medical geneticist who identified the chromosome deletion defining Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and helped found clinical cytogenetics in the United States.
Kurt J. Bloch
Kurt J. Bloch is an American immunologist and rheumatologist, emeritus professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for 1968 and 1972 New England Journal papers on heavy-chain disease and surface immunoglobulins.
Kurt J. Isselbacher
Kurt J. Isselbacher (1925–2019) was a German-born American physician-scientist who led the Massachusetts General Hospital Gastrointestinal Unit for three decades, identified the enzymatic defect causing galactosemia, and founded the MGH Cancer Center.
Kurt Nordström
Kurt Nordström was a Swedish microbiologist and geneticist at Uppsala University who worked out how plasmid replication is controlled, credited with discovering regulatory RNA, and won the Björkénska prize in 2008.
Kurt Straíf
Kurt Straif is a German-trained cancer epidemiologist and physician who headed the IARC Monographs Program in Lyon and joined Boston College as a Research Professor in 2022.
Kurt Von Figura
Kurt von Figura is a German biochemist known for work on lysosomal enzymes and sulfatases, and president of the University of Göttingen from 2005 to 2010.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich, born 1938 in Aarberg, Switzerland, is a Swiss chemist and biophysicist who won half of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing NMR spectroscopy to determine protein structures.
Kwang‐Wook Choi
Kwang-Wook Choi (최광욱) is a South Korean molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at KAIST who studies Drosophila eye development, pattern formation, and organ growth control.
Kwangmeyung Kim
Kwangmeyung Kim (김광명) is a South Korean nanomedicine researcher known for glycol chitosan nanoparticles and cancer theranostics, and a Distinguished Professor at Ewha Womans University since 2022.
Kwangseog Ahn
Kwangseog Ahn (안광석) is a South Korean viral immunologist and professor of biological sciences at Seoul National University, known for MHC class I antigen processing and SAMHD1 research.
Kwok-Kin Wong
Kwok-Kin Wong is a medical oncologist and cancer biologist who directs hematology and medical oncology at NYU Langone and studies lung cancer through genetically engineered mouse models.
Kyeong Kyu Kim
Kyeong Kyu Kim is a South Korean structural biologist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, known for Nature structures including the B-DNA–Z-DNA junction (2005).
Kyle S. Van Houtan
Kyle S. Van Houtan is an American conservation scientist and ecologist who led NOAA's Marine Turtle Assessment Program in Honolulu and later directed science at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Kyle W. Shertzer
Kyle W. Shertzer is an American research mathematical statistician at NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Beaufort, North Carolina, who works on quantitative assessment of marine fish stocks.
Kymberly Gowdy
Kymberly Gowdy is an American pulmonary immunologist at Ohio State University who studies how inhaled pollutants like diesel exhaust and ozone increase lung disease, receiving a 2025 PECASE award.
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou is a bioengineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine known for scaffold-free cartilage tissue engineering, five founded companies, and 15 FDA-approved products.
Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung
Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung, also published as June Kwon-Chung, is a medical mycologist who heads a research section at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, and studies the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus.
Kyungjae Myung
Kyungjae Myung (명경재) is a South Korean molecular biologist known for yeast studies of DNA repair and genome instability, and director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity.
L. Andrew Lyon
L. Andrew Lyon (Louis Andrew Lyon) is an American chemist known for research on microgels and hydrogels, and a professor at Chapman University since 2014.
L. Andrew Staehelin
L. Andrew Staehelin (1939–2022) was a Swiss-trained cell biologist and electron microscopist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studied plant Golgi and cell division and promoted high-pressure freezing.