Life scientists

Huda Y. Zoghbi

Huda Y. Zoghbi is a Lebanese-born American neurogeneticist at Baylor College of Medicine whose lab found that MECP2 mutations cause Rett syndrome and identified the gene for spinocerebellar ataxia type 1.

Hudson H. Freeze

Hudson H. Freeze is an American glycobiologist who directs the Sanford Children's Health Research Center and studies congenital disorders of glycosylation, rare inherited sugar-chain diseases.

Hugh A. Sampson

Hugh A. Sampson is a pediatric allergist and immunologist, Director Emeritus of Mount Sinai's Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.

Hugh Carroll Hemmings Jr.

Hugh Carroll Hemmings Jr. is an American anesthesiologist and pharmacologist who chairs Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Hugh D. Robertson

Hugh D. Robertson, or Hugh Robertson, was an American molecular biologist (1943–2005) who discovered RNase III and spent decades at Rockefeller University and Cornell Medical School studying viral RNA.

Hugh Huxley

Hugh Huxley (1924–2013) was an English molecular biologist who established the sliding filament theory and swinging cross-bridge model of muscle contraction, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Brandeis University.

Hugh O. McDevitt

Hugh O'Neill McDevitt (1930–2022) was an American immunologist who spent over fifty years at Stanford, discovering immune response genes and linking MHC variation to autoimmune diseases like diabetes.

Hugh R. Woodland

Hugh R. Woodland is a retired developmental biologist at the University of Warwick known for identifying the Xsox17 genes that mediate endoderm formation in frog embryos.

Hugh R.B. Pelham

Hugh R.B. Pelham, also known as Hugh Pelham, is a British cell biologist who identified the KDEL signal retaining proteins in the ER and directed the LMB from 2006 to 2018.

Hugo de Vries

Hugo de Vries (1848–1935) was a Dutch botanist and founder of genetics, first to publish the rediscovered Mendel's laws in 1900 and known for his mutation theory.

Hugo J. Bellen

Hugo J. Bellen is a Drosophila geneticist and neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for building genome-wide fly genetic tools and finding human neurological disease genes.

Hugo K. Dooner

Hugo K. Dooner is a maize geneticist and Rutgers University professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 for research on transposable elements.

Hugo Kronecker

Hugo Kronecker (1839–1914) was a German physiologist, professor of physiology at the University of Bern from 1884, known for cardiac research identifying Kronecker's point and the refractory period.

Hugo Tejeda

Hugo Tejeda is a circuit neuroscientist who leads the Unit on Neuromodulation and Synaptic Integration at NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland, and received the PECASE award in January 2025.

Hugo Theorell

Hugo Theorell, born Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell, was a Swedish biochemist at the Karolinska Institutet who won the 1955 Nobel Prize for work on oxidation enzymes.

Huimin Zhao

Huimin Zhao is a synthetic biologist and chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who develops machine learning, laboratory automation, and photoenzymatic tools for engineering proteins and metabolic pathways.

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Humberto Fernández-Morán

Humberto Fernández-Morán (1924–1999) was a Venezuelan biophysicist who invented the diamond knife, founded what is now the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, and built the first electron cryomicroscope with superconducting lenses.

Hung Fan

Hung Fan is an American molecular biologist and virologist, emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for research on murine leukemia virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.

Hung‐wen Liu

Hung-wen Liu (刘鸿文), known as Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, is a Taiwanese-born chemical biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies enzyme mechanisms and antibiotic sugar biosynthesis.

Hunter Fraser

Hunter B. Fraser is a population and evolutionary geneticist and Professor of Biology at Stanford University whose lab studies how the evolution of gene expression produces complex traits.

Huntington F. Willard

Huntington F. Willard is an American human geneticist known for discovering XIST, the RNA controlling X-chromosome inactivation, and for creating the first human artificial chromosome in 1997.

Hyejung Won

Hyejung Won (원혜정) is a South Korean neurogeneticist and tenured associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for H-MAGMA and a 2019 NIH New Innovator Award.

Hyeryun Choe

Hyeryun Choe is a virologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for identifying the HIV-1 coreceptors CCR3 and CCR5 and studying virus entry.

Hynek Wichterle

Hynek Wichterle is a molecular biologist and stem-cell neuroscientist at Columbia University known for directing embryonic stem cells to become motor neurons and modeling ALS.

Hyongbum Henry Kim

Hyongbum Henry Kim (김형범) is a South Korean pharmacologist and genome-editing researcher, professor of pharmacology at Yonsei University College of Medicine, known for CRISPR delivery and prime-editing research.

Hyung-Song Nam

Hyung-Song Nam is an American cell and vascular biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for a 2010 method for expanding endothelial cells from human embryonic stem cells.

I. Bernard Weinstein

I. Bernard Weinstein (1930–2008) was an American molecular biologist and oncologist at Columbia University who studied how tumor promoters act and originated the concept of oncogene addiction.

I. George Miller Jr.

I. George Miller Jr. is an American pediatric virologist at Yale known for Epstein-Barr virus research, including the first human virus shown to cause tumors in primates.

I. Michael Lerner

I. Michael Lerner (Isadore Michael Lerner) was an American population geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the concept of genetic homeostasis and for making poultry breeding a quantitative science.