Life and health scientists

Haojie Huang

Haojie Huang (黄浩杰) is a molecular biologist who researches prostate cancer, transcription factors, and therapy resistance. He is currently a Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University.

Haoxing Xu is a cell physiologist known for establishing the lysosome as a signaling organelle, pioneering the whole-lysosome patch clamp, identifying TRPML channels, and receiving a 2009 PECASE award.

Har Gobind Khorana (ਹਰ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਖੁਰਾਨਾ)

Har Gobind Khorana (ਹਰ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਖੁਰਾਨਾ), 1922–2011, Indian American biochemist at Wisconsin and MIT; shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for deciphering the genetic code and made the first functional synthetic gene.

Haralambos Gavras

Haralambos Gavras is a Greek-born physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Boston University, known for introducing ACE inhibition and angiotensin II blockade for hypertension.

Harald C. Ott

Harald C. Ott is an Austrian-trained thoracic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who pioneered whole-organ regeneration by perfusion decellularization, creating bioartificial hearts, lungs, and kidneys.

Harald F. Hess

Harald F. Hess is an American physicist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who co-invented PALM super-resolution microscopy and develops 3D electron microscopy for brain connectomics.

Harald Jüppner

Harald Jüppner is a German-trained pediatric nephrologist and endocrine researcher who is Chief of Pediatric Nephrology at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and a Harvard Medical School professor.

Harald Reuter

Harald Reuter (1934–2022) was a German-born pharmacologist and physiologist, professor at the University of Bern from 1969 to 1999, credited with discovering cardiac calcium channels and sodium/calcium exchange.

Harald Schmidt

Harald Schmidt, also known as Harald H.H.W. Schmidt, is a pharmacologist and professor emeritus at Maastricht University, known for nitric oxide research and drug repurposing.

Harald Schwalbe

Harald Schwalbe (born 1966) is a German chemist, professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, known for NMR studies of riboswitch RNA regulation and protein folding, and executive director of Instruct-ERIC.

Oct 10, 2026

Harald Sonnenberg

Harald Sonnenberg (1935–2026) was a German-born renal physiologist at the University of Toronto who won the 1986 Canada Gairdner International Award for discovering atrial natriuretic factor.

Harald Sontheimer

Harald Sontheimer is an American neuroscientist known for discovering how brain tumors cause epilepsy, and Professor and Chair of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia since 2021.

Harald Stein

Harald Stein (born 1942 in Kiel) is a German hematopathologist who discovered Ki-67 and CD30, described new lymphoma entities, and led pathology at the Charité.

Harald Stenmark

Harald Stenmark is a Norwegian cell biologist and cancer researcher, professor at the University of Oslo, known for work on endocytosis, the FYVE domain, and the ESCRT machinery.

Harald von Boehmer

Harald von Boehmer (1942–2018) was a German-born immunologist who established how the thymus selects T cells and discovered the pre-T cell receptor, working at Basel, Paris, and Harvard.

Harald zur Hausen

Harald zur Hausen (1936–2023) was a German virologist who established that HPV causes most cervical cancer, earning half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Hardeep Singh (physician)

Hardeep Singh is a physician and health services researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for measuring diagnostic error and co-developing the SAFER EHR safety guides.

Harden M. McConnell

Harden M. McConnell (H. M. McConnell, 1927–2014) was an American biophysical chemist at Stanford whose spin-label technique opened the study of cell membranes and lipid domains.

Harinder Singh (immunologist)

Harinder Singh is an American immunologist known for defining how PU.1, IRF4, and IRF8 control blood and immune cell fates, and directs the Center for Systems Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Harish Nair

Harish Nair is a pediatric infectious diseases epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh, known for the first widely cited global burden estimates of RSV and influenza child pneumonia.

Harlan M. Krumholz

Harlan M. Krumholz, also known as Harlan Krumholz, is an American cardiologist at Yale known for building national measures of hospital quality and pressing for open trial data.

Harlan Parker Banks

Harlan Parker Banks (1913–1998) was an American paleobotanist at Cornell University, an authority on the earliest land plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Harley W. Moon

Harley W. Moon (1936–2018) was an American veterinary pathologist who showed how E. coli attaches to the gut and directed the USDA's National Animal Disease Center.

Oct 10, 2026

Harminder Dua

Harminder Dua, full name Harminder Singh Dua, is a British ophthalmologist and professor at the University of Nottingham, known for discovering a previously undetected layer of the cornea.

Harmit Malik

Harmit Malik is an evolutionary biologist who studies genetic conflict at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, where he is a professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Harold A. Chapman

Harold A. Chapman is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF, known for research on lung injury, repair, macrophage biology, and lung epithelial progenitors.

Harold A. Mooney

Harold A. Mooney, born in 1932 in Santa Rosa, California, is an American ecologist at Stanford University known for linking plant physiological ecology to global change biology.

Harold A. Sackeïm

Harold A. Sackeïm, also published as Harold Sackeim, is an American clinical psychologist who led electroconvulsive therapy research at Columbia for 30 years and is the founding editor of Brain Stimulation.

Harold A. Scheraga

Harold A. Scheraga was an American biophysical chemist who spent 73 years at Cornell University, showing how amino acid sequences determine protein structure, folding, and activity.