DMS Faculty Last Name: K

Dr. C. Ronald Kahn	M.D.	Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine	JDC	BBS		Molecular mechanisms of insulin action and insulin resistance; insulin-like growth factors; genetics of diabetes mellitus; signaling molecules and their alterations in diabetes.
Dr. Daniel Kahne	Ph.D.	Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Antibiotic Resistance and Organelle Assembly
Dr. Raghu Kalluri	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	BBS		Matrix biology, cell-matrix interactions in health and disease.
Dr. Yoshihide Kanaoka	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM		The role of cys-Lts in antigen-induced pulmonary inflammation and the mechanism of cys-LT-mediated pulmonary fibrosis.
Dr. Joshua Kaplan	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS	NSCI	Intracellular Signaling, Neurobiology, Protein transport/trafficking and secretion, signal transduction
Dr. Dennis Kasper	M.D.	William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Bacterial/ Host Interactions in symbiosis and pathogen esis
Dr. Howard Katz	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM		Regulation of mast cell activation by cell surface receptors of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily.
Dr. Kenneth Kaye	M.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BWH	VIR		Molecular Biology of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpes Virus
Dr. Andrius Kazlauskas	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Ophthalmology	SERI	BBS		Elucidating the signal transduction cascades by which receptor tyrosine kinases initiate biological responses such as chemotaxis, apoptosis, proliferation and differentiation.
Dr. Raymond Kelleher	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Neurology	MGH	NSCI		Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders, Particularly the Role of Translational Regulation.
Dr. Vicki Kelley	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine (Pathology)	BWH	IMM		Mechanisms of autoimmune disease.
Dr. Roya Khosravi-Far	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	BIDMC	BBS		Signal transduction pathways involved in cellular proliferation and apoptosis.
Dr. Elliott Kieff	Ph.D., M.D.	Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Medicine	BWH	VIR	BBS, IMM	Epstein Barr Virus B lymphocyte growth and differentiation. Molecular cellular biology of lymphocyte growth transformation by Epstein-Barr virus; transcriptional regulation through the Notch Pathoway and signal transduction by TNF receptors. (VIR)
Dr. Carla Kim	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Genetics	CH	BBS		Lung stem cell biology and cancer
Dr. Kwang-Soo Kim	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	MCL	NSCI		Investigation of central nervous system pathways regulating autonomic and neuroendocrine function.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Kinet	M.D.	Professor of Pathology	BIDMC	IMM		Biology and Function of Immunoreceptors.
Dr. Randall King	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Chemical approaches to cell division and cancer.
Dr. Robert Kingston	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS	VIR	Mammalian transcription; role of chromatia and regulation by heat.
Dr. Tomas Kirchhausen	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	CBR	BBS		Structural biochemistry and cell biology of intracellular membrane traffic.
Dr. Marc Kirschner	Ph.D.	Professor of Systems Biology	HMS	BBS		Cell cycle regulation, early development, cytoskeletal organization.
Dr .Michael Klagsbrun	Ph.D.	Patricia K. Donahoe Professor of Surgery	CH	BBS		Growth factor structure and function.
Dr. Nancy Kleckner	Ph.D.	Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	HU-Camb	VIR		Genetics and biochemistry of bacterial transposons, bacterial replication initiation and yeast meiotic chromosome metabolism.
Dr. David Knipe	Ph.D.	Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	VIR	BBS, BPH	Molecular biology of herpes simplex virus; regulation of viral gene expression; mechanisms of latent infection and host immune response.
Dr. Koichi Kobayashi	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pathology	DFCI	IMM		Using Biochemical, Cellular and Mouse Genetics Approaches to Dissect the Innate Immune Signaling Pathways of Toll-like Receptors and D-LRR (Nod) Proteins
Dr. Christine Kocks	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	MGH	IMM		Microbial pattern recognition and signaling in innate immunity
Dr. Roberto Kolter	Ph.D.	Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS		Molecular biology of bacterial interactions; peptide production and release; growth phase regulation of gene expression.
Dr. Stella Kourembanas	M.D.	Clement A. Smith Associate Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Molecular basis of pulmonary hypertension, hypoxic signaling and lung vascular development.
Dr. Edward Kravitz	Ph.D.	George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Hormonal orchestration of behavior.
Dr. Jordan Kreidberg	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Signaling networks in development and disease
Dr. Raju Kucherlapati	Ph.D.	Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS		Genetics and genomics of human disease.
Dr. Vijay Kuchroo	Ph.D.	Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology	BWH	IMM		Cellular and genetic factors involved in the induction and regulation of autoimmunity.
Dr. Rohit Kulkarni	Ph.D., M.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	JDC	BBS		Stem cells, Islet cell function, Growth and development
Dr. Sam Kunes	Ph.D.	Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology	HU-Camb	NSCI		Nervous system consturction and function
Dr. Louis Kunkel	Ph.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS	NSCI	Molecular basis of human neuromuscular disease.
Dr. Thomas Kupper	M.D.	Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Professor of Dermatology	BWH	BBS
Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	VIR		Mechanisms of antiretroviral drug resistance, and drug resistant human immunodeficiency virus.
Dr. Mitzi Kuroda	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS		Molecular genetics of chromosome organization and gene expression.
Dr. David Kwiatkowski	Ph.D., M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Human, molecular and mouse genetics