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Heinrich Bechhold

Heinrich Jakob Bechhold (1866–1937) was a German colloid chemist in Frankfurt am Main who invented ultrafiltration in 1906 and directed the city's Institute for Colloid Research from 1911.

Heinrich Braun

Heinrich Braun (1862–1934) was a German surgeon who made local anesthesia practical by adding adrenaline to cocaine, coined "conduction anesthesia", and led the Zwickau hospital.

Heinrich Curschmann

Heinrich Curschmann (1846–1910) was a German internist who built and directed the Hamburg-Eppendorf general hospital and the University of Leipzig medical clinic, and described the Curschmann spirals found in asthmatic sputum.

Heinrich Quincke

Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842–1922) was a German internist who directed the Kiel Medical Clinic and introduced lumbar puncture in 1891; Quincke's edema and Quincke's pulse bear his name.

Heinrich R. Schelbert

Heinrich R. Schelbert is a nuclear medicine physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA, who developed cardiac PET for measuring myocardial blood flow and predicting recovery of dysfunctional heart muscle.

Heinrich Taegtmeyer

Heinrich Taegtmeyer (H. Taegtmeyer) is a cardiologist known for showing that metabolic changes drive remodeling of the failing and diabetic heart; he has taught at UTHealth Houston since 1982.

Heinz Köhler

Heinz Köhler is an immunologist known for studies of antibody diversity, idiotypy, and immune networks, including anti-idiotype vaccines, now emeritus at the University of Kentucky.

Heinz Ludwig

Heinz Ludwig (born 1947) is an Austrian hematologist-oncologist who leads the Wilhelminen Cancer Research Institute in Vienna, known for showing in 1990 that erythropoietin corrects myeloma anemia.

Heinz Wiendl

Heinz Wiendl is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who has chaired Neurology at University Hospital Freiburg since 2024, after leading the department at Münster from 2013.

Heinz‐Josef Lenz

Heinz-Josef Lenz is a German-trained American medical oncologist at the University of Southern California who leads gastrointestinal cancer research, known for pharmacogenomics of colorectal cancer drug response.

Helen E. Heslop

Helen E. Heslop is a New Zealand-trained physician-scientist in pediatric oncology at Baylor College of Medicine who pioneered virus-specific T cell therapy for EBV lymphomas and CAR-T immunotherapy.

Helen H. Hobbs

Helen H. Hobbs is an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern whose discovery that PCSK9 mutations lower LDL cholesterol led to a new class of cholesterol drugs.

Helen K. Reddel

Helen K. Reddel is an Australian respiratory physician and asthma researcher at Macquarie University and the Woolcock Institute who chairs the GINA Science Committee and directs ACAM.

Helen M. Colhoun

Helen M. Colhoun, also published as Helen Colhoun, is a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh known for leading the CARDS and SELECT diabetes trials.

Helen M. Ranney

Helen M. Ranney (1920–2010) was an American hematologist who first separated normal from sickle-cell hemoglobin and became the first woman to chair a US department of medicine.

Helen Muir

Helen Muir, christened Isabella Helen Mary Muir, was a British biochemist who established the molecular biology of cartilage proteoglycans and directed the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology from 1977 to 1990.

Helen S. Mayberg

Helen S. Mayberg, also known as Helen Mayberg, is an American neurologist and neuropsychiatrist who pioneered deep brain stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate for treatment-resistant depression.

Helena Edlund

Helena Edlund is a Swedish molecular developmental biologist and diabetes researcher, professor at Umeå University, known for showing that Pdx1 is required for pancreas development.

Helena Legido‐Quigley

Helena Legido-Quigley is a health systems and public health researcher who holds the Chair in Health Systems Science at Imperial College London, jointly with The George Institute.

Hélène Carabin

Hélène Carabin is a Canadian veterinary epidemiologist at Université de Montréal who studies zoonotic diseases and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Hellmut G. Augustin

Hellmut G. Augustin, born 1959, is a German vascular biologist and professor at Heidelberg University who heads vascular oncology research at the German Cancer Research Center.

Helmut Drexler

Helmut Drexler (1951–2009) was a German cardiologist who led the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at Hannover Medical School and led the BOOST bone-marrow cell therapy trial.

Hemmo A. Drexhage

Hemmo A. Drexhage is a Dutch medical immunologist and professor emeritus at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for research on thyroid autoimmunity, type 1 diabetes, and psychiatry.

Hendrik Zwaardemaker

Hendrik Zwaardemaker was a Dutch physiologist, professor at Utrecht University from 1897 to 1927, who founded experimental research on smell and invented the first olfactometer in 1888.

Henna-Maria Uusitupa

Henna-Maria Uusitupa, also published as Henna-Maria Kailanto, is a Finnish food chemistry researcher who studied early-life nutrition at the University of Turku and led DuPont's Infant Health Platform.

Henning Bundgaard

Henning Bundgaard is a Danish cardiologist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen and senior consultant at Rigshospitalet, known for leading the POET and POTCAST trials.

Henning Pontoppidan

Henning Pontoppidan (1925–2017) was an American anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who established the nation's first respiratory intensive care unit in 1961 and pioneered mechanical ventilation research.

Henri Bismuth

Henri Bismuth (born 1934) is a French hepatobiliary surgeon and pioneer of liver transplantation, the first in France to launch a hepatic transplantation program in the 1970s.

Henri Bounameaux

Henri Bounameaux, born 1953 in Liège, Belgium, is a Swiss physician-scientist who built Geneva University Hospitals' angiology service into an international reference center for pulmonary embolism.

Henri Carré

Henri Carré (1870–1938) was a French veterinarian who showed in 1905 that the disease of young dogs is caused by a filterable virus, known in French as the maladie de Carré.