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Howard A. Nash

Howard A. Nash (1937–2011) was an American molecular biologist at the National Institute of Mental Health who worked out lambda site-specific recombination and discovered integration host factor.

Howard A. Rockman

Howard A. Rockman is a cardiologist and molecular biologist at Duke University Medical Center who studies GPCR signaling in heart failure and directs the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center.

Howard A. Schneiderman

Howard A. Schneiderman (1927–1990) was an American entomologist and developmental biologist known for co-discovering juvenile hormone II and for building Monsanto's plant biotechnology program as its chief scientist.

Howard Allen Schneiderman

Howard Allen Schneiderman (1927–1990) was an American entomologist and developmental biologist known for co-discovering insect juvenile hormone II and building Monsanto's plant biotechnology program; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Howard Bachrach

Howard Bachrach (1920–2008) was an American virologist and biochemist who spent his USDA career at Plum Island, purifying poliovirus and producing the first genetically engineered vaccine, against foot-and-mouth disease.

Howard C. Berg

Howard C. Berg (Howard Curtis Berg, 1934–2021) was an American biophysicist at Harvard and the Rowland Institute who worked out how E. coli swims and steers toward food.

Howard Cedar

Howard Cedar, born Haim Cedar, is an Israeli-American biochemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1973 whose work on DNA methylation helped establish epigenetics.

Howard E. Gendelman

Howard E. Gendelman is a physician-scientist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center whose group reported the first elimination of HIV from live animals in 2019 and co-developed LASER ART.

Howard Eichenbaum

Howard Eichenbaum (1947–2017) was an American cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University, where he directed the Center for Memory and Brain, showed the hippocampus supports memory in animals, and discovered "time cells."

Howard Ensign Evans

Howard Ensign Evans (1919–2002) was an American entomologist who chiefly studied wasps, taught at Harvard and Colorado State, and pioneered the use of behavioral data in classification.

Howard Gest

Howard Gest (1921–2012) was an American microbiologist and biochemist who discovered light-dependent hydrogen production by photosynthetic bacteria in 1949 and described Heliobacterium chlorum in 1983, spending most of his career at Indiana University.

Howard Green (cell biologist)

Howard Green (1925–2015) was a Canadian-born American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School who developed cultured skin grafts for burn patients, a foundation of regenerative medicine.

Howard Holtzer

Howard Holtzer (1922–2014) was an American cell and developmental biologist who spent his career at the University of Pennsylvania studying how embryonic cells commit to lineages.

Howard J. Cooke

Howard J. Cooke is a molecular geneticist and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh who identified Y chromosome-specific repeated DNA in 1976 and studied sex chromosome telomeres.

Howard L. Sanders

Howard L. Sanders (1921–2001) was an American marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who showed the deep sea is among Earth's most species-rich environments.

Howard M. Goodman

Howard M. Goodman (Howard Michael Goodman) is a molecular biologist, professor of genetics emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who founded and chaired Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Molecular Biology.

Howard M. Grey

Howard M. Grey (1932–2019) was an American immunologist who showed that MHC molecules bind and present peptide fragments for recognition by T cells, work honored with the 1989 William B. Coley Award.

Howard M. Temin

Howard M. Temin was an American virologist who discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase, proposed the provirus hypothesis, and won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Howard Ochman

Howard Ochman (born 1954) is an American evolutionary geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on pathogenicity islands and lateral gene transfer in bacteria.

Howard Redfern Morris

Howard Redfern Morris is a British biochemist who pioneered biomolecular mass spectrometry, developed the first peptide sequencing strategy, identified enkephalin, conceived the Q-TOF mass spectrometer, and founded M-Scan and BioPharmaSpec.

Howard Riezman

Howard Riezman (born 1953) is an American-born, later Swiss, cell biochemist and professor at the University of Geneva known for establishing yeast endocytosis and ubiquitin's role as an endocytosis signal.

Howard Schachman

Howard Schachman (1918–2016) was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley whose ultracentrifuge methods helped establish the existence of ribosomes, and who led national advocacy for research ethics.

Howard Schulman

Howard Schulman is a molecular biologist known for four decades of work on CaMKII, an enzyme implicated in memory storage, and a Stanford professor of pharmacology and neurobiology.

Howard T. Jacobs

Howard T. Jacobs, known as Howy Jacobs, is a London-born molecular biologist who studies mitochondrial DNA replication and disease, and is Professor Emeritus at Tampere University in Finland.

Howard Y. Chang

Howard Y. Chang (Howard Yuan-Hao Chang), born 1972, is a Taiwanese-born American physician-scientist at Stanford known for gene regulation, long noncoding RNAs, and the ATAC-seq method, now chief scientific officer of Amgen.

Hua Gu

Hua Gu is a Chinese-born immunologist who directs the Molecular Immunology Research Unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and studies T and B cell signaling.

Huan‐Xiang Zhou

Huan-Xiang Zhou is a biophysicist, professor and LAS Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago since 2017, known for work on protein binding kinetics, ion-channel gating, and biomolecular condensates.

Hubert Amrein

Hubert Amrein is a Swiss-trained neuroscientist and professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine known for research on taste perception and nutrient sensing in fruit flies.

Huck Hui Ng

Huck Hui Ng is a Singapore-based stem cell biologist who led the Genome Institute of Singapore and is known for mapping transcription factors that define pluripotency.

Huda Akil

Huda Akil is a Syrian-born American neuroscientist at the University of Michigan known for discovering stimulation-produced analgesia, providing the first physiological evidence for endorphins, and receiving the 2023 National Medal of Science.