edgepedia

Life scientists

9,464 articles

Hamish N. Munro

Hamish N. Munro (H.N. Munro) was a Scottish-born nutritional biochemist who studied protein metabolism at MIT and Tufts, founding the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.

Hampton Carson

Hampton Lawrence Carson (1914–2004) was an American population geneticist who led the Hawaiian Drosophila project, showing that about 1,000 fly species evolved on the islands through founder events.

Han G. Brunner

Han G. Brunner (Henri Gerrit Brunner, born 1956) is a Dutch clinical geneticist at Radboud University known for identifying Brunner syndrome, a genetic cause of impulsive aggression.

Han Liang

Han Liang is a computational biologist and cancer researcher who is Interim Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Han Remaut

Han Remaut is a Belgian structural biologist known for work on bacterial pili and curli, and a VIB group leader and VUB professor in Brussels since 2009.

Hana Golding

Hana Golding is an American immunologist and virologist who has led the FDA's Laboratory of Retrovirus Research since 1993, developing assays to evaluate vaccines against emerging viruses.

Hanbin Mao

Hanbin Mao is a chemist and single-molecule biophysicist at Kent State University in Ohio, known for optical-tweezers and DNA-origami methods to study G-quadruplex DNA structures linked to cancer.

Hani Goodarzi

Hani Goodarzi is an Iranian-American molecular and computational biologist who studies RNA regulation in cancer, a professor at UCSF since 2016 and a Core Investigator at the Arc Institute.

Hani Zaher

Hani Zaher is a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis known for showing that the ribosome proofreads errors made during protein synthesis.

Hannah Monyer

Hannah Monyer is a Romanian-born German neuroscientist who has led the Department of Clinical Neurobiology at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center since 1999.

Hanneke Schuitemaker

Hanneke Schuitemaker is a Dutch virologist who spent over 20 years on HIV-1 pathogenesis, led Janssen's Ad26 COVID-19 vaccine program, and joined Valneva as Chief Scientific Officer in 2024.

Hannele Ruohola-Baker

Hannele Ruohola-Baker, born in Kullaa, Finland, in 1959, is a biochemist and professor at the University of Washington known for showing that microRNAs regulate stem cell division.

Hannes Ludewig

Hannes Ludewig (born 1988) is a German biochemist and structural enzymologist, an HHMI postdoctoral scientist at The Scripps Research Institute since 2024, known for macrocyclase and halogenase research.

Hans Clevers

Hans Clevers is a Dutch molecular geneticist known for identifying the Lgr5 stem cell marker and pioneering organoid technology, growing miniature organs from stem cells.

Hans D. Ochs

Hans D. Ochs is a pediatric immunologist and professor at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital, known for identifying genes causing primary immunodeficiency diseases, including FOXP3.

Hans Driesch

Hans Driesch (1867–1941) was a German experimental embryologist turned philosopher, the last great spokesman for vitalism, known for his 1891 sea urchin experiments and his concept of entelechy.

Hans Ellegren

Hans Ellegren is a Swedish evolutionary biologist, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University since 1999, known for avian genome evolution and speciation genomics in flycatchers.

Hans Frauenfelder

Hans Frauenfelder (1922–2022) was a Swiss-born physicist who discovered perturbed angular correlation and introduced conformational substates and the protein energy landscape, working at Illinois and Los Alamos.

Hans G. Boman

Hans G. Boman (1924–2008) was a Swedish microbiologist who discovered the inducible antibacterial immune response in Drosophila in 1972 and characterized cecropin, work credited as foundational for innate immunity research.

Hans G. Zachau

Hans G. Zachau, also cited as H. G. Zachau, was a German biochemist and molecular biologist in Munich known for tRNA sequencing and mapping immunoglobulin kappa genes.

Hans Groß

Hans Groß, also known as Hans J. Gross, was a German biochemist and RNA biologist at the University of Würzburg who sequenced the first complete viroid in 1978.

Hans H. Hirsch

Hans H. Hirsch is a Swiss virologist and infectious-diseases physician known for defining how BK polyomavirus threatens kidney transplants and building the plasma viral-load testing used to monitor it.

Hans Hengartner

Hans Hengartner is a Swiss immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, known for work on immunological tolerance and cell-mediated killing.

Hans J. Bohnert

Hans J. Bohnert, also published as H. J. Bohnert, is a plant biologist at the University of Illinois known for research on how plants tolerate salt and drought.

Hans J. Geuze

Hans J. Geuze (H. J. Geuze), born 1936, is a Dutch cell biologist known for immuno-electron microscopy of intracellular protein transport and professor at Utrecht University.

Hans J. Müller‐Eberhard

Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998) was a German-born molecular immunologist who defined the complement system's proteins, established its alternative pathway, and linked complement defects to paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Hans Joenje

Hans Joenje is a Dutch human geneticist and Professor Emeritus at Amsterdam University Medical Centers who spent four decades defining the genetic basis of Fanconi anemia, cloning causative genes and linking the pathway to BRCA1.

Hans Kende

Hans Janos Kende (1937–2006) was a Hungarian-born plant physiologist at Michigan State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, known for work on ethylene and gibberellic acid.

Hans Kornberg

Sir Hans Kornberg (1928–2019) was a British-American biochemist, born in Germany, who trained under Hans Krebs, discovered the glyoxylate cycle, coined "anaplerotic" reactions, and was knighted in 1978.

Hans Kössel

Hans Kössel (1934–1995) was a German molecular biologist at the University of Freiburg who determined the first plant nucleic acid sequence and discovered RNA editing in chloroplasts in 1991.