Medical and health researchers

H. William Strausś

H. William Strausś is a nuclear medicine physician who pioneered cardiovascular nuclear imaging, establishing thallium-201 myocardial imaging and MUGA, and won the 2016 Benedict Cassen Prize.

H.C. Stansel

Horace C. Stansel was a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine from the 1960s until his death in 1994.

Haatem Reda

Haatem M. Reda is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for neuromuscular and autoimmune neurology.

Hagop M. Kantarjian

Hagop M. Kantarjian is a Lebanese-born hematologist-oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, chair of its leukemia department from 1995 to 2025 and a critic of cancer drug prices.

Sep 17, 2026

Hagop S. Akiskal (1944–2021), Armenian-American psychiatrist at UCSD, creator of the bipolar spectrum concept, bipolar III/IV subtypes, and TEMPS affective temperaments; NIMH adviser 1990–1994, Journal of Affective Disorders editor.

Hai‐Quan Mao

Hai-Quan Mao is a biomedical engineer and polymer chemist at Johns Hopkins University, known for nanomaterials delivering DNA, RNA, and protein therapeutics and for nanofiber scaffolds in regenerative medicine.

Haidong D. Dong

Haidong D. Dong is a physician-scientist and Professor of Immunology at Mayo Clinic, best known for discovering B7-H1 and showing tumor-cell B7-H1 promotes T-cell apoptosis.

Haig H. Kazazian

Haig H. Kazazian (1937–2022) was an American human geneticist at Johns Hopkins and Penn who pioneered DNA-based prenatal diagnosis of hemoglobin disorders and showed that transposable elements cause human disease.

Hak Soo Choi

Hak Soo Choi (최학수) is a Korean biomedical engineer, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Bioengineering and Nanomedicine Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for near-infrared fluorescence imaging and kidney-clearable nanoparticles.

Hakan Oral

Hakan Oral is a Turkish-trained cardiac electrophysiologist and professor at the University of Michigan whose trials on pulmonary-vein ablation helped make catheter ablation standard treatment for atrial fibrillation.

Hal Drakesmith

Hal Drakesmith, who publishes as Alexander Drakesmith, is Professor of Iron Biology at the University of Oxford, where he studies how the hormone hepcidin regulates iron metabolism and anemia during infection.

Hal E. Broxmeyer

Hal E. Broxmeyer (1944–2021) was an American experimental hematologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who established umbilical cord blood as a source of transplantable stem cells.

Hamao Umezawa

Hamao Umezawa (梅澤濱夫, 1914–1986) was a Japanese microbiologist who discovered the antibiotic kanamycin in 1957, effective against streptomycin-resistant tuberculosis, and founded the Institute of Microbial Chemistry in Tokyo.

Hamid Rabb

Hamid Rabb is a transplant nephrologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Kidney Transplant Program and researches acute kidney injury and inflammation.

Hanlee P. Ji

Hanlee P. Ji, often published as Hanlee Ji, is a Stanford professor of medicine (oncology) known for developing DNA sequencing technologies for cancer genomics and precision oncology.

Hanna Dêbiec

Hanna Dêbiec is a French nephrology researcher, emeritus at Inserm's unit UMR S 1155 in Paris, known for identifying the antigens behind rare antenatal and childhood forms of membranous nephropathy.

Hanna E. Abboud

Hanna E. Abboud, also known as Hanna Abboud, was a Palestinian-born nephrologist who led the Division of Nephrology at UT Health San Antonio from 1990 until his death in 2015.

Sep 17, 2026

Hannah Augusta Valantine

Hannah Augusta Valantine is a London-trained transplant cardiologist and Stanford professor who co-invented a blood test for heart transplant rejection and became the inaugural NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity.

Hannah J. Gould

Hannah J. Gould is an immunologist at King's College London known for her research on IgE and IgD, the antibodies involved in allergy and asthma.

Hanneke C. Kluin‐Nelemans

Hanneke C. Kluin-Nelemans is a Dutch hematologist known for research on mantle cell lymphoma and systemic mastocytosis, and head of hematology at Groningen from 2001 to 2015.

Hannele Yki‐Järvinen

Hannele Yki-Järvinen is a Finnish professor of medicine at the University of Helsinki known for research linking liver fat to insulin resistance and insulin treatment in type 2 diabetes.

Hanny Al‐Samkari

Hanny Al-Samkari is an American hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led major trials in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and pyruvate kinase deficiency.

Hans Bisgaard

Hans Bisgaard (1955–2022) was a Danish pediatric asthma researcher, professor of pediatrics at the University of Copenhagen from 1998, and founder of the COPSAC childhood asthma birth-cohort study at Gentofte Hospital.

Hans C. Oettgen

Hans C. Oettgen, born in Cologne, Germany in 1958, is a physician-scientist at Boston Children's Hospital whose research on IgE and mast cells shaped food allergy treatment.

Hans Christian Hagedorn

Hans Christian Hagedorn (1888–1971) was a Danish physician who co-founded Danish insulin production in 1923 and invented protamine insulin, the principle behind NPH insulin, still the most used intermediate-acting insulin.

Hans Ernst August Buchner

Hans Ernst August Buchner (1850–1902) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist who discovered alexine, the heat-labile blood-serum principle now known as complement, and held the hygiene chair at Munich from 1894.

Sep 17, 2026

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964), German psychiatrist and neurologist, co-namesake of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which he described in 1920/21 in Breslau; later Kiel professor, rector, and a reevaluated Nazi-era record.

Hans Kohn

Hans Nathan Kohn (1866–1935) was a German internist and leading Berlin specialist for lung and heart disease, remembered for the pores of Kohn, interalveolar lung connections he described in 1893.

Hans Kosterlitz

Hans Kosterlitz was a German-born British biochemist and pharmacologist at the University of Aberdeen who, in his seventies, led the discovery of enkephalin, the first endogenous opioid, in 1975.