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H. Clifford Lane

H. Clifford Lane is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who serves as Clinical Director of NIAID at the NIH, known for HIV research and trials of remdesivir and Ebola vaccines.

H. Criss Hartzell

H. Criss Hartzell (Harrison Hartzell Jr.) is a cell biologist who spent his career at Emory University studying ion channels, especially the ANO/TMEM16 chloride channel family.

H. Earl Ruley

H. Earl Ruley is a cancer researcher and Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for showing how oncogenes cooperate to transform cells and for gene-trap mutagenesis.

H. Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-born American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for deciphering the genetic code and reported the first chemical synthesis of a gene in 1970.

H. Joseph Yost

H. Joseph Yost is an American developmental biologist known for research on vertebrate left-right asymmetry, which places organs like the heart on the correct side, and for zebrafish models of congenital heart disease.

H. Lee Sweeney

H. Lee Sweeney is an American molecular biologist who studies how myosin motors generate force and develops therapies for muscular dystrophy at the University of Florida.

H. Robert Horvitz

H. Robert Horvitz, born 1947, is an American biologist at MIT who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for discovering genes that control programmed cell death.

H. Robson MacDonald

Hugh Robson MacDonald (1946–2023) was a Canadian-born immunologist who spent his career at the Ludwig Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is known for work on T cell development and the discovery of iNKT cells.

H. Ronald Kaback

Howard Ronald Kaback (1936–2019) was an American biochemist who prepared the first sealed bacterial membrane vesicles and devoted his career to the lactose permease LacY of E. coli.

H.C. Birnboim

H.C. Birnboim, also published as H. Chaim Birnboim, is a molecular biologist known for the 1979 alkaline lysis plasmid DNA method and for work on DNA strand breaks.

H.J. Evans

H.J. Evans, also known as H. John Evans, was a Welsh human cytogeneticist who directed the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh from 1969 to 1994, known for chromosome banding.

H.L. Kornberg

H.L. Kornberg, born Hans Leo Kornberg (1928–2019), was a British-American biochemist who discovered the glyoxylate cycle, coined the term "anaplerotic" reactions, and held biochemistry chairs at Leicester, Cambridge, and Boston University.

H.R. Mahler

Henry R. Mahler (died July 1983) was a biochemist and molecular biologist at Indiana University Bloomington, remembered as "Mr. Mitochondria" for his yeast mitochondrial genetics research.

Hai‐Hui Xue

Hai-Hui (Howard) Xue is an immunologist at Hackensack Meridian Health's Center for Discovery and Innovation who studies how TCF1 controls T cell identity and memory.

Haifan Lin

Haifan Lin is a stem cell biologist at Yale School of Medicine, founding director of the Yale Stem Cell Center, known for discovering the Piwi gene family and piRNAs.

Hailing Jin

Hailing Jin is a plant molecular geneticist at UC Riverside who discovered cross-kingdom RNA interference and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Haim Aviv

Haim Aviv is an Israeli molecular biologist and biotechnology entrepreneur known for his 1970s work on globin messenger RNA at the Weizmann Institute and NIH, who founded Bio-Technology General in 1980.

Haim Sompolinsky

Haim Sompolinsky, born 1949 in Copenhagen, is an Israeli computational neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Harvard professor since 2022, known for spin-glass models of neural memory.

Haiwei Song

Haiwei Song is a structural biologist and Research Director at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, known for the crystal structure of human eRF1.

Haixin Sui

Haixin Sui is a Chinese-born structural biologist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York, who applies cryo-electron tomography to cilia, microtubule doublets, and pathogen complexes.

Haiyuan Yu

Haiyuan Yu is a computational biologist and Tisch University Professor at Cornell University known for building large-scale protein interaction networks of yeasts and humans and adding three-dimensional structural detail to them.

Hajime Karasuyama

Hajime Karasuyama (烏山 一) is a Japanese immunologist and physician known for work on B cell development, for showing that basophils drive chronic allergic inflammation, and for identifying STAT3 mutations as the cause of hyper-IgE syndrome.

Håkan Persson

Håkan Persson (1952–1993) was a Swedish cellular and molecular neuroscientist who founded the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the Karolinska Institute, where his group helped clone NT-3 and discovered neurotrophin 4/5.

Hakho Lee

Hakho Lee is a biomedical engineer and radiologist, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of biomedical engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for the DMR biosensor and the SCOPE method.

Hakon Hakonarson

Hakon Hakonarson is an Icelandic-born physician-scientist who founded and directs the Center for Applied Genomics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is a pediatrics professor at Penn.

Hallowell Davis

Hallowell Davis (1896–1992) was an American neurophysiologist who helped found clinical electroencephalography in the United States and became a leading figure in audiology and hearing conservation.

Halvor N. Christensen

Halvor N. Christensen was an American biochemist at the University of Michigan who established that amino acids cross cell membranes through multiple distinct, separately regulated transport systems.

Hamida Hammad

Hamida Hammad is a Belgian-based immunologist, senior full professor at Ghent University and VIB-UGent group leader, known for research on dendritic cells and epithelial cells in allergic asthma.

Hamilton Hartridge

Hamilton Hartridge (1886–1976) was a British physiologist and inventor who, with F. J. W. Roughton, introduced the continuous-flow method for measuring rapid chemical reactions in 1923.

Hamilton O. Smith

Hamilton O. Smith (1931–2025) was an American molecular biologist who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for discovering restriction enzymes and later helped sequence the first cellular genome.