Medical and health researchers

Howard Taylor Ricketts

Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist at the University of Chicago who proved wood ticks transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever; the genus Rickettsia is named for him.

Howard Ulfelder (died 1990) was an American gynecologist and cancer specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who helped establish vaginal-smear cytology and in 1971 linked vaginal cancer in young women to the drug DES.

Hua Yu (cancer researcher)

Hua Yu is a cancer researcher and Wilder Professor at City of Hope in Duarte, California, whose laboratory established the signaling protein STAT3 as a molecular target for cancer immunotherapy.

Huaxi Xu

Huaxi Xu (徐华西) was a neuroscientist who studied the cell biology of Alzheimer's disease, known for work on APP processing and for identifying TREM2 as a receptor for β-amyloid.

Hubert J. Wolfe

Hubert J. Wolfe is an American physician-scientist and pathologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, known for the 1973 discovery that C-cell hyperplasia precedes hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma.

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Hugh Calkins

Hugh Calkins is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins, led the 2017 RE-CIRCUIT trial, and is a past President of the Heart Rhythm Society.

Hugh Montgomery (British physician)

Hugh Montgomery is a British physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for a 1998 Nature paper linking the ACE gene to fitness.

Hugh R. Taylor

Hugh R. Taylor is an Australian ophthalmologist and University of Melbourne professor who established the link between ultraviolet radiation and cataract and led Australia's trachoma elimination.

Hugh S. Markus

Hugh S. Markus is a British neurologist, Professor of Stroke Medicine at Cambridge since 2013, known for research on stroke genetics and cerebral small vessel disease.

Hugh S. Taylor

Hugh S. Taylor is an American physician-scientist who chairs Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine and is known for endometriosis research.

Hugh Smith Taylor

Hugh Smith Taylor is an American reproductive medicine researcher who chairs Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale and led the trials behind elagolix approval.

Hugh Watkins (British physician-scientist)

Hugh Watkins is a British physician-scientist at the University of Oxford who established that mutations in the heart's motor proteins cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and who leads CureHeart.

Hugo A. Katus

Hugo A. Katus, born 1951, is a German cardiologist who invented the cardiac troponin T blood test and led cardiology at Heidelberg University Hospital from 2002 to 2020.

Hugo Aerts

Hugo Aerts is a Dutch scientist in radiomics and medical imaging AI, a professor at Harvard and Dana-Farber who directs the AIM Program at Mass General Brigham in Boston.

Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz

Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932) was a German pharmacologist, professor of pharmacology at the University of Greifswald from 1883, credited with the Arndt–Schulz law and regarded as the discoverer of hormesis.

Hugo Sellheim

Hugo Sellheim (1871–1936) was a German physician and gynecologist whose experimental work produced the birth-mechanics law of least constraint; he held chairs at Düsseldorf, Tübingen, Halle, and Leipzig.

Hugo Ten Cate

Hugo ten Cate is a Dutch internist and physician-scientist, professor emeritus at Maastricht University, known for linking blood coagulation with inflammation and for advancing thrombin generation testing.

Hugo Wilhelm Knipping

Hugo Wilhelm Knipping (1895–1984) was a German physician and internist who founded clinical spiroergometry, combining a gas-metabolism apparatus with a crank ergometer in 1929 and heading the University of Cologne's medical clinic from 1939 to 1963.

Hugo Zeberg

Hugo Zeberg is a Swedish physician and geneticist at Karolinska Institutet known for showing, with Svante Pääbo, that a Neanderthal-inherited gene segment raises the risk of severe COVID-19.

Hugues de The

Hugues de The (Hugues de Thé), born 1959, is a French physician-scientist at the Collège de France who explained how retinoic acid and arsenic cure acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Hui Zheng

Hui Zheng is a neuroscientist and mouse geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for pioneering mouse models of APP and presenilins in Alzheimer's disease.

Hui-Kuan Lin

Hui-Kuan Lin (林慧观) is a Taiwanese cancer biologist known for work on ubiquitination and metabolism in cancer, a professor at Duke University elected an Academician of Academia Sinica in 2022.

Hui-Young Lee

Hui-Young Lee is a South Korean scientist who studies insulin resistance, mitochondrial function, and diabetes, and co-authored the 2014 Nature paper on how metformin works.

Hunter Heath

Hunter Heath is an American endocrinologist known for research on calcitonin and primary hyperparathyroidism, who trained at Walter Reed, worked at Mayo Clinic, and later joined Indiana University.

Huntington Potter

Huntington Potter is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado who researches Alzheimer's disease, its link to Down syndrome, and GM-CSF treatment trials.

Huseyin Naci

Huseyin Naci is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics, where he founded the Pharmaceutical Policy Lab and studies the evidence behind new drug approval and use.

Hussein A. Tawbi

Hussein A. Tawbi, also known as Hussein Tawbi, is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led pivotal immunotherapy trials for melanoma that has spread to the brain.

Husseini K. Manji

Husseini K. Manji is a physician-scientist in mood disorders research, Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford who shared the 2023 Sarnat Prize for discovering ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.