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Hauke Hillen

Hauke Sven Hillen is a German structural biologist who leads a research group in Göttingen, known for crystal structures of human mitochondrial transcription initiation and anti-termination.

Hays S. Rye

Hays S. Rye, also published as Hays Rye, is an American biochemist and associate professor at Texas A&M University known for work on protein folding and the GroEL/GroES chaperonin.

Hazel Rose Markus

Hazel Rose Markus is a social and cultural psychologist who has been the Davis-Brack Professor at Stanford University since 1994 and is credited with founding cultural psychology.

He Jiankui (贺建奎)

He Jiankui (贺建奎), Chinese biophysicist formerly at SUSTech, Shenzhen, announced the first CRISPR-edited babies (CCR5, twins Lulu and Nana) in 2018; jailed three years in 2019, released 2022, now seeking a research comeback.

Heather C. Mefford

Heather C. Mefford is an American physician-scientist and geneticist who studies the genetic basis of epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Heather R. Christofk

Heather R. Christofk is an American biochemist and UCLA professor who studies how metabolism is regulated in normal and cancerous cells, known for work on PKM2 in tumors.

Hector F. DeLuca

Hector F. DeLuca is an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose laboratory established how vitamin D is metabolized and turned it into drugs.

Hedda Wardemann

Hedda Wardemann is a German immunologist who heads the Division of B Cell Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, known for single-cell studies of human B cell tolerance and malaria antibodies.

Hee‐Sup Shin

Hee-Sup Shin (신희섭) is a South Korean neuroscientist known for pioneering a mouse model of empathy and for applying molecular genetics to the thalamus and social behaviors.

Heidi M Sosik

Heidi M. Sosik is an American biological oceanographer and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who co-invented the Imaging FlowCytobot, an underwater plankton-imaging robot.

Heidi M. McBride

Heidi M. McBride, also published as Heidi McBride, is a cell biologist and Canada Research Chair at McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute, known for mitochondrial-derived vesicles.

Hein te Riele

Hein te Riele is a Dutch molecular biologist and group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for work on DNA mismatch repair and cancer.

Heiner Westphal

Heiner Westphal is a molecular biologist and developmental geneticist who led the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at NICHD, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Heinrich Betz

Heinrich Betz, born 1944 in Reutlingen, Germany, is a German molecular neurobiologist who identified gephyrin and purified the first neurotransmitter receptor from the mammalian CNS.

Heinrich Jasper

Heinrich Jasper is a German-educated aging and stem cell biologist who showed how stress signaling and immunity control stem cells in the aging fruit fly gut, and now leads regenerative medicine research at Genentech.

Heinrich Leonhardt

Heinrich Leonhardt is a German molecular biologist and epigeneticist, professor at LMU Munich since 2002, known for showing how DNA methyltransferase targets replication sites and for chromobody nanobodies.

Heinrich Matthaei

Heinrich Matthaei is a German biochemist who, as a postdoctoral fellow in Marshall Nirenberg's NIH laboratory, performed the 1961 poly-U experiment that deciphered the first codon of the genetic code.

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921) was a German anatomist, physiologist, and pathologist who named the neuron in 1891 and the chromosome in 1888, and described Waldeyer's ring.

Heinrich Wilhelm Poll

Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877–1939) was a German anatomist and geneticist who pioneered twin research, built the Hamburgisches Zwillingsarchiv, and was dismissed in 1933 under the Nazi regime.

Heinz Arnheiter

Heinz Arnheiter is a Swiss scientist known for research on the Mx gene's resistance to influenza virus and for cloning the mouse microphthalmia gene Mitf, published in 1993.

Heinz Feldmann

Heinz Feldmann, born 1959 in Lippstadt, Germany, is a virologist who leads filovirus research at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories and developed the Ervebo Ebola vaccine.

Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) was a German-American biochemist and virologist at UC Berkeley who first reassembled a virus from protein and RNA in a test tube.

Heinz L. Sänger

Heinz L. Sänger (1928–2010) was a German molecular biologist and virologist who directed viroid research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and established the molecular nature of viroids.

Heinz Saedler

Heinz Saedler is a German molecular biologist known for work on transposable elements and flower development, directing the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research from 1980 to 2009.

Heinz Schaller

Heinz Schaller (1932–2010) was a German molecular biologist and virologist, professor at Heidelberg University, who identified DNA polymerase III, established hepatitis B virus replication, and co-founded Biogen.

Heinz-Günter Wittmann

Heinz-Günter Wittmann (1927–1990) was a German biochemist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and sequenced nearly all E. coli ribosomal proteins.

Helder Maiato

Hélder Maiato, born 1976 in Matosinhos, Portugal, is a Portuguese cell biologist who studies chromosome segregation and leads the Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Laboratory at i3S, Porto.

Helen Blau

Helen M. Blau is an American stem cell biologist at Stanford University known for showing that cell differentiation is reversible and for work on muscle regeneration.

Helen L. Yin

Helen L. Yin, also published as Helen Yin, is an American cell biologist who discovered gelsolin, the first actin filament-severing protein, and is Professor of Physiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Helen M. Berman

Helen M. Berman is an American structural biologist and X-ray crystallographer who helped create the Protein Data Bank in 1971 and directed its US operation from 1998 to 2014.