Life and health scientists

Harry J.M. Groen

Harry J.M. Groen is a Dutch pulmonologist and thoracic oncology researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, known for a 2000 study of PET scanning in lung cancer staging.

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Harry Klee

Harry Klee is an American plant scientist at the University of Florida who studies tomato flavor chemistry and ethylene perception, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Harry Klinefelter

Harry Klinefelter, also known as Harry Fitch Klinefelter, Jr., is an American endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins whose name is attached to Klinefelter syndrome from a 1942 paper.

Harry L. Malech, born Harry Lewis Malech, is an American immunologist at NIAID who has led gene therapy for chronic granulomatous disease since 1991, including first-in-human prime-edited stem cell therapy.

Harry L.A. Janssen

Harry L.A. Janssen (Harry Janssen) is a Dutch hepatologist, Professor and Chair of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the 2013 miravirsen hepatitis C trial.

Harry M. Meyer

Harry M. Meyer, or Harry Martin Meyer Jr. (1928–2001), was an American pediatrician and virologist who co-developed the first rubella vaccine and later led the FDA's Bureau of Biologics.

Harry M. Rose

Harry M. Rose (Harry Melvin Rose, 1906–1986) was an American physician and microbiologist at Columbia University who developed the first reliable diagnostic test for rheumatoid arthritis.

Harry Marshall Ward

Harry Marshall Ward (1854–1906) was a British botanist and mycologist whose investigation of coffee leaf rust in Ceylon placed him in the first rank of mycological investigators, and who later became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Harry N. Antoniades

Harry N. Antoniades was a molecular biologist at Harvard University who moved from studying insulin in diabetic blood to isolating and sequencing platelet-derived growth factor, PDGF.

Harry R. Büller

Harry R. Büller (born 1952) is a Dutch internist and clinical trialist in vascular medicine at Amsterdam UMC whose trials reshaped the diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism.

Harry Rubin

Harry Rubin (1926–2020) was an American cancer biologist at UC Berkeley who developed the 1958 focus assay for Rous sarcoma virus and shared the 1964 Lasker Award.

Harry S. Jacob

Harry S. Jacob is a Harvard-trained hematologist who led the University of Minnesota's Division of Hematology from 1968 to 1998 and served as president of the American Society of Hematology.

Harry Shwachman

Harry Shwachman was an American pediatrician at Children's Hospital, Boston, whose four decades of work established cystic fibrosis as a diagnosable, treatable disease and whose name survives in the Shwachman–Diamond syndrome.

Harry Sokol

Harry Sokol is a French gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher, professor at Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Saint-Antoine, known for work on gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease.

Harry Steenbock

Harry Steenbock (1886–1967) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who discovered in 1923 that ultraviolet light generates vitamin D in foods, prompting the founding of WARF.

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Harry T. Orr

Harry T. Orr is an American neurogeneticist at the University of Minnesota who identified the SCA1 gene and shared the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Huda Zoghbi.

Harry V. Gelboin

Harry V. Gelboin, born 1929, is an American cancer researcher who led the Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis at the National Cancer Institute, studying benzo[a]pyrene metabolism and cytochrome P450.

Harry V. Vinters

Harry V. Vinters is a Canadian-born neuropathologist, Distinguished Professor emeritus at UCLA, who led its neuropathology section from 1993 to 2016 and studied cerebral amyloid angiopathy and epilepsy.

Hartmut Beug

Hartmut Beug was a German cancer biologist who studied oncogene cooperation in leukemia and EMT in metastasis, a founding Senior Scientist at the IMP in Vienna from 1988.

Hartmut Döhner

Hartmut Döhner, born 1957 in Bad Kreuznach, is a German hematologist-oncologist and professor at Ulm University Hospital who chairs the AML Study Group and led the ELN leukemia guidelines.

Hartmut Geiger

Hartmut Geiger is a German-based biochemist and hematologist known for research on hematopoietic stem cell aging, including the Cdc42 mechanism, and directs molecular medicine at Universität Ulm.

Hartmut Land

Hartmut Land is a German-born molecular biologist and cancer researcher, professor of biomedical genetics at the University of Rochester since 1999, known for showing that cancer requires cooperating oncogenes.

Hartmut Luecke

Hartmut Luecke is a German-born structural biologist known for membrane protein structures, above all bacteriorhodopsin and the Helicobacter pylori urea channel; since 2023 he has led a cryo-EM laboratory at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Hartmut Michel

Hartmut Michel, born 1948 in Ludwigsburg, is a German biochemist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.

Hartmut Oschkinat

Hartmut Oschkinat is an NMR spectroscopist and structural biologist who headed the NMR structural biology department at the FMP in Berlin from 1998 until his retirement.

Hartmut P.H. Neumann

Hartmut P.H. Neumann is a German internist and clinical geneticist who spent three decades at Freiburg studying von Hippel-Lindau disease, pheochromocytoma, and paraganglioma, and now runs a private preventive medicine practice.

Hartmut Wekerle

Hartmut Wekerle, born 1944, is a German neuroimmunologist regarded as the founder of experimental neuroimmunology in Germany, known for T-cell autoimmunity research in multiple sclerosis.

Hartog Jacob Hamburger

Hartog Jacob Hamburger (1859–1924) was a Dutch physiologist and professor of physiology at the University of Groningen from 1901, remembered as the first to describe the chloride ion shift of the blood.

Hartzell V. Schaff

Hartzell V. Schaff is an American cardiovascular surgeon and past chairman of cardiovascular surgery at the Mayo Clinic, known for septal myectomy and the 1997 fen-phen valve disease report.