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Harry L. Malech

Harry L. Malech, born Harry Lewis Malech, is an American immunologist at NIAID who has led gene therapy for chronic granulomatous disease since 1991, including first-in-human prime-edited stem cell therapy.

Harry M. Rose

Harry M. Rose (Harry Melvin Rose, 1906–1986) was an American physician and microbiologist at Columbia University who developed the first reliable diagnostic test for rheumatoid arthritis.

Harry Marshall Ward

Harry Marshall Ward (1854–1906) was a British botanist and mycologist whose investigation of coffee leaf rust in Ceylon placed him in the first rank of mycological investigators, and who later became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Harry N. Antoniades

Harry N. Antoniades was a molecular biologist at Harvard University who moved from studying insulin in diabetic blood to isolating and sequencing platelet-derived growth factor, PDGF.

Harry Rubin

Harry Rubin (1926–2020) was an American cancer biologist at UC Berkeley who developed the 1958 focus assay for Rous sarcoma virus and shared the 1964 Lasker Award.

Harry Sokol

Harry Sokol is a French gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher, professor at Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Saint-Antoine, known for work on gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease.

Harry Steenbock

Harry Steenbock (1886–1967) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who discovered in 1923 that ultraviolet light generates vitamin D in foods, prompting the founding of WARF.

Harry T. Orr

Harry T. Orr is an American neurogeneticist at the University of Minnesota who identified the SCA1 gene and shared the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Huda Zoghbi.

Harry V. Gelboin

Harry V. Gelboin, born 1929, is an American cancer researcher who led the Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis at the National Cancer Institute, studying benzo[a]pyrene metabolism and cytochrome P450.

Hartmut Beug

Hartmut Beug was a German cancer biologist who studied oncogene cooperation in leukemia and EMT in metastasis, a founding Senior Scientist at the IMP in Vienna from 1988.

Hartmut Land

Hartmut Land is a German-born molecular biologist and cancer researcher, professor of biomedical genetics at the University of Rochester since 1999, known for showing that cancer requires cooperating oncogenes.

Hartmut Luecke

Hartmut Luecke is a German-born structural biologist known for membrane protein structures, above all bacteriorhodopsin and the Helicobacter pylori urea channel; since 2023 he has led a cryo-EM laboratory at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Hartmut Michel

Hartmut Michel, born 1948 in Ludwigsburg, is a German biochemist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.

Hartmut Oschkinat

Hartmut Oschkinat is an NMR spectroscopist and structural biologist who headed the NMR structural biology department at the FMP in Berlin from 1998 until his retirement.

Hartog Jacob Hamburger

Hartog Jacob Hamburger (1859–1924) was a Dutch physiologist and professor of physiology at the University of Groningen from 1901, remembered as the first to describe the chloride ion shift of the blood.

Haruhiko Bito

Haruhiko Bito (尾藤 晴彦) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist, Professor and Chair of Neurochemistry at the University of Tokyo, known for work on calcium signaling and memory.

Haruhiko Koseki

Haruhiko Koseki (古関 明彦) is a Japanese molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Deputy Director of RIKEN's Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, known for work on epigenetic inheritance.

Haruhiko Siomi

Haruhiko Siomi (塩見 春彦) is a Japanese RNA biologist known for work on RNA silencing, Argonaute and Piwi proteins, and the piRNA pathway; he joined Chiba University in 2025.

Haruo Kasai

Haruo Kasai (河西春郎) is a Japanese cellular neuroscientist and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo, known for discovering structural plasticity in brain spine synapses and winning the 2022 Japan Academy Prize.

Haruo Saito

Haruo Saito (斎藤 春雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for defining the yeast HOG osmosensing pathway and mammalian stress kinase cascades.

Harvey B. Pollard

Harvey B. Pollard is an American biochemist and professor at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, known for discovering synexin and for cystic fibrosis research.

Harvey Cantor

Harvey Cantor is an American immunologist, the Baruj Benacerraf Professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for discovering two T-cell lineages that regulate immunity.

Harvey F. Lodish

Harvey F. Lodish, also known as Harvey Lodish, is an American molecular biologist at MIT and the Whitehead Institute who cloned the erythropoietin receptor and leads the textbook Molecular Cell Biology.

Harvey L. Levy

Harvey L. Levy is an American physician and biochemical geneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for newborn screening and maternal phenylketonuria research.

Harvey R. Colten

Harvey R. Colten (1939–2007) was an American pediatric immunologist who showed that complement proteins are made outside the liver and identified surfactant protein B deficiency in newborns.

Harvey R. Herschman

Harvey R. Herschman, also published as Harvey Herschman, is an American molecular biologist at UCLA known for cloning the COX-2 gene and identifying the EGF receptor.

Harvey S. Marver

Harvey S. Marver was a physician at the National Cancer Institute and UCSF who helped establish the enzymatic basis of the hepatic porphyrias; he died in 1971 at 37.

Harvey T. McMahon

Harvey T. McMahon, born in Clones, Ireland, has led a laboratory at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 1995, studying membrane curvature and endocytosis.

Hashim Al-Hashimi

Hashim Al-Hashimi is an American biophysical chemist at Columbia University known for using NMR to capture rare, short-lived shapes of RNA and DNA, including transient Hoogsteen base pairs.

Hassane S. Mchaourab

Hassane S. Mchaourab is a Lebanese-born biophysicist, professor at Vanderbilt University, known for using spin labeling and DEER spectroscopy to study ABC transporters like P-glycoprotein.