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H.C. Birnboim

H.C. Birnboim, also published as H. Chaim Birnboim, is a molecular biologist known for the 1979 alkaline lysis plasmid DNA method and for work on DNA strand breaks.

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.

H.J. Evans

H.J. Evans, also known as H. John Evans, was a Welsh human cytogeneticist who directed the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh from 1969 to 1994, known for chromosome banding.

H.L. Kornberg

H.L. Kornberg, born Hans Leo Kornberg (1928–2019), was a British-American biochemist who discovered the glyoxylate cycle, coined the term "anaplerotic" reactions, and held biochemistry chairs at Leicester, Cambridge, and Boston University.

H.R. Mahler

Henry R. Mahler (died July 1983) was a biochemist and molecular biologist at Indiana University Bloomington, remembered as "Mr. Mitochondria" for his yeast mitochondrial genetics research.

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.

Hagop S. Akiskal

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‐Hui Xue

Hai-Hui (Howard) Xue is an immunologist at Hackensack Meridian Health's Center for Discovery and Innovation who studies how TCF1 controls T cell identity and memory.

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.

Haifan Lin

Haifan Lin is a stem cell biologist at Yale School of Medicine, founding director of the Yale Stem Cell Center, known for discovering the Piwi gene family and piRNAs.

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.

Hailing Jin

Hailing Jin is a plant molecular geneticist at UC Riverside who discovered cross-kingdom RNA interference and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Haim Aviv

Haim Aviv is an Israeli molecular biologist and biotechnology entrepreneur known for his 1970s work on globin messenger RNA at the Weizmann Institute and NIH, who founded Bio-Technology General in 1980.

Haim Sompolinsky

Haim Sompolinsky, born 1949 in Copenhagen, is an Israeli computational neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Harvard professor since 2022, known for spin-glass models of neural memory.

Haiwei Song

Haiwei Song is a structural biologist and Research Director at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, known for the crystal structure of human eRF1.

Haixin Sui

Haixin Sui is a Chinese-born structural biologist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York, who applies cryo-electron tomography to cilia, microtubule doublets, and pathogen complexes.

Haiyuan Yu

Haiyuan Yu is a computational biologist and Tisch University Professor at Cornell University known for building large-scale protein interaction networks of yeasts and humans and adding three-dimensional structural detail to them.

Hajime Karasuyama

Hajime Karasuyama (烏山 一) is a Japanese immunologist and physician known for work on B cell development, for showing that basophils drive chronic allergic inflammation, and for identifying STAT3 mutations as the cause of hyper-IgE syndrome.

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.

Håkan Persson

Håkan Persson (1952–1993) was a Swedish cellular and molecular neuroscientist who founded the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the Karolinska Institute, where his group helped clone NT-3 and discovered neurotrophin 4/5.

Hakho Lee

Hakho Lee is a biomedical engineer and radiologist, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of biomedical engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for the DMR biosensor and the SCOPE method.

Hakon Hakonarson

Hakon Hakonarson is an Icelandic-born physician-scientist who founded and directs the Center for Applied Genomics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is a pediatrics professor at Penn.

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.

Hallowell Davis

Hallowell Davis (1896–1992) was an American neurophysiologist who helped found clinical electroencephalography in the United States and became a leading figure in audiology and hearing conservation.

Halvor N. Christensen

Halvor N. Christensen was an American biochemist at the University of Michigan who established that amino acids cross cell membranes through multiple distinct, separately regulated transport systems.

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.