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Hisashi Umemori

Hisashi Umemori is a neuroscientist and physician, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying FGF22 as a target-derived signal that organizes synapse formation.

Hiten Madhani

Hiten D. Madhani is an American molecular biologist, professor and vice-chair of biochemistry at UCSF, known for RNA interference and epigenetics research in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

Hitoshi Kihara

Hitoshi Kihara (木原均) was a Japanese plant geneticist, born in 1893, who founded wheat genome analysis and identified Aegilops squarrosa as the ancestor of common wheat.

Hitoshi Kurumizaka

Hitoshi Kurumizaka (胡桃坂 仁志) is a Japanese structural biologist who heads the Laboratory of Chromatin Structure and Function at the University of Tokyo, known for his 2011 human centromeric nucleosome structure.

Hitoshi Sakano

Hitoshi Sakano (坂野 仁) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Fukui known for the molecular identity code that sorts olfactory sensory axons in mice.

Holger Dau

Holger Dau (born 1958) is a biophysicist known for research on photosynthetic water oxidation; his 2023 Nature paper identified the long-postulated S4 state of photosystem II as an oxygen-radical state.

Holger Dobbek

Holger Dobbek is a structural biologist and biochemist who has been professor of Structural Biology and Biochemistry at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009, known for his structures of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.

Holger Jannasch

Holger Windekilde Jannasch (1927–1998) was a German-born microbial ecologist and oceanographer who pioneered deep-sea microbiology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, best known for showing how chemosynthetic bacteria sustain life at hydrothermal vents.

Holger Puchta

Holger Puchta (born 1960 in Ingolstadt) is a German molecular biologist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology known for pioneering plant genome engineering and CRISPR/Cas chromosome restructuring.

Holger Sondermann

Holger Sondermann is a structural biologist known for crystal structures of the Ras activator Son of Sevenless and bacterial biofilm signaling, who joined DESY and Kiel University in 2020.

Holger Stark

Holger Stark is a German structural biologist and Max Planck director in Göttingen whose group determined protein structures by cryo-EM down to 1.25 ångströms in 2020.

Hollis Cline

Hollis T. Cline is an American developmental neuroscientist who was a professor at Scripps Research, known for showing how visual experience guides the development of visual circuits.

Holly A. Ingraham

Holly A. Ingraham, also published as H. A. Ingraham, is a molecular endocrinologist at UCSF known for identifying Pit-1 and for showing SF-1 drives gonadal sex differences.

Holly Hughes (research microbiologist)

Holly A. Hughes is an American CDC research microbiologist in Fort Collins, Colorado, who develops molecular diagnostics for arboviruses and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Homer Smith (renal physiologist)

Homer Smith (1895–1962) was an American renal physiologist at New York University whose inulin and PAH clearance methods made kidney function measurable in patients, winning the 1947 Lasker Award.

Hong Li (molecular biologist)

Hong Li is a structural molecular biologist and professor at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who uses cryo-EM to study CRISPR-Cas gene-editing enzymes and RNA-processing machinery.

Hong Mā

Hong Ma is a plant molecular biologist and Huck Chair at Penn State, known for his 1992 Cell paper on the floral gene AGAMOUS and for angiosperm phylogenomics.

Hong-Gil Nam

Hong-Gil Nam (남홍길) is a South Korean plant developmental geneticist known for work on the genetic control of plant aging and leaf senescence, and for the 2014 Ho-Am Prize in Science.

Hong‐Gang Wang

Hong-Gang Wang is a cancer biologist and the Lois High Berstler Professor of Pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, studying apoptosis, autophagy, and the Bcl-2 family.

Hong‐Wei Dong

Hong-Wei Dong, who publishes as Hongwei Dong, is a neurobiologist who maps the long-range wiring of the mouse brain, created the Allen Reference Atlas, and is a professor at UCLA.

Hongbin Li

Hongbin Li (李宏斌) is a Canada-based biophysical chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of British Columbia, who studies the mechanics of elastic proteins using single-molecule atomic force microscopy.

Hongbo Chi

Hongbo Chi is a Chinese-born immunologist who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on mTOR signaling, in vivo CRISPR screens, and T cell metabolism.

Hongbo R. Luo

Hongbo R. Luo is a molecular biologist who studies neutrophils, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital since 2004, known for work on inositol phosphate signaling.

Hongjun Song

Hongjun Song (宋红军) is a Chinese-born neuroscientist and stem cell biologist who is David J. Mahoney Professor and chair of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hongkui Zeng

Hongkui Zeng is a neuroscientist who leads the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and is known for building open-access atlases of brain cell types.

Horace Barker

Horace Albert Barker (1907–2000) was an American biochemist and microbiologist who spent his career at UC Berkeley and discovered the coenzyme form of vitamin B12 in 1958–59, winning the National Medal of Science in 1968.

Horace Barlow

Horace Barlow (1921–2020) was a British visual neuroscientist who treated vision as information processing, proposed the 1961 efficient coding hypothesis, and was the great-grandson of Charles Darwin.

Horace Winchell Magoun

Horace Winchell Magoun (1907–1991) was an American neuroscientist who established the brain stem reticular formation as an arousal system, wrote The Waking Brain (1958), and helped found UCLA's Brain Research Institute.

Horst Kessler

Horst Kessler is a German bioorganic chemist, professor at the Technical University of Munich from 1989 to 2008, known for cyclic peptide conformational analysis and RGD-based integrin ligands.

Howard A. Bern

Howard A. Bern (1920–2012) was a Canadian-born comparative endocrinologist who spent his career at UC Berkeley, co-authored the field's first textbook, and pioneered research on endocrine disruption.