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Haydar Frangoul

Haydar Frangoul is a pediatric hematologist at Sarah Cannon in Nashville who led the pivotal clinical trials of exa-cel, a CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease and thalassemia.

Hays S. Rye

Hays S. Rye, also published as Hays Rye, is an American biochemist and associate professor at Texas A&M University known for work on protein folding and the GroEL/GroES chaperonin.

Hazel Rose Markus

Hazel Rose Markus is a social and cultural psychologist who has been the Davis-Brack Professor at Stanford University since 1994 and is credited with founding cultural psychology.

He Jiankui (贺建奎)

He Jiankui (贺建奎), Chinese biophysicist formerly at SUSTech, Shenzhen, announced the first CRISPR-edited babies (CCR5, twins Lulu and Nana) in 2018; jailed three years in 2019, released 2022, now seeking a research comeback.

Heather Allore

Heather Allore is an American biostatistician at Yale School of Medicine known for gerontological biostatistics and studies of disability, falls, and dementia in older adults.

Heather Berlin

Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist at Mount Sinai who studies the neural basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, and consciousness, and co-hosts StarTalk.

Heather C. Mefford

Heather C. Mefford is an American physician-scientist and geneticist who studies the genetic basis of epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Heather Heying

Heather Heying is an American evolutionary biologist and zoologist known for field research on Madagascan poison frogs and for resigning from The Evergreen State College in 2017 amid campus protests.

Heather Pidcoke

Heather F. Pidcoke is an American transfusion-medicine and trauma-research scientist who worked at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, received a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award, and helped shape care of bleeding trauma patients.

Heather R. Christofk

Heather R. Christofk is an American biochemist and UCLA professor who studies how metabolism is regulated in normal and cancerous cells, known for work on PKM2 in tumors.

Heather Zar

Heather Zar is a South African pediatric pulmonologist and epidemiologist who chairs pediatrics at Red Cross Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, and studies childhood respiratory disease.

Hector F. DeLuca

Hector F. DeLuca is an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose laboratory established how vitamin D is metabolized and turned it into drugs.

Héctor H. García

Héctor H. García, also known as Hector H. Garcia, is a Peruvian physician-scientist who studies cysticercosis, a leading cause of epilepsy, and leads research in Lima.

Hedda Wardemann

Hedda Wardemann is a German immunologist who heads the Division of B Cell Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, known for single-cell studies of human B cell tolerance and malaria antibodies.

Hedvig Hricak

Hedvig Hricak (Hričak), born 1946 in Zagreb, is a Croatian-born American radiologist who chaired Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1999 to 2023.

Hedy L. Kindler

Hedy L. Kindler, also known as Hedy Lee Kindler, is an American medical oncologist at the University of Chicago known for mesothelioma research and the POLO pancreatic cancer trial.

Hee‐Sup Shin

Hee-Sup Shin (신희섭) is a South Korean neuroscientist known for pioneering a mouse model of empathy and for applying molecular genetics to the thalamus and social behaviors.

Hei Sook Sul

Hei Sook Sul is a metabolic physiologist, professor and chair of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at UC Berkeley, known for discovering Pref-1 and AdPLA's roles in fat-cell biology.

Heidi E. Hamm

Heidi E. Hamm is an American pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University who solved the first crystal structures of G proteins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Heidi Johansen‐Berg

Heidi Johansen-Berg is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford whose neuroimaging research showed that white matter changes structurally in response to learning and training.

Heidi M Sosik

Heidi M. Sosik is an American biological oceanographer and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who co-invented the Imaging FlowCytobot, an underwater plankton-imaging robot.

Heidi M. McBride

Heidi M. McBride, also published as Heidi McBride, is a cell biologist and Canada Research Chair at McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute, known for mitochondrial-derived vesicles.

Heidi Phillips

Heidi S. Phillips is an American neuroscientist at Genentech in South San Francisco, known for co-authoring the 1994 GDNF paper and the 2006 molecular classification of high-grade glioma.

Heikki Joensuu

Heikki Joensuu (born 1956) is a Finnish oncologist and cancer researcher, professor at the University of Helsinki from 1994 to 2019, known for the FinHer breast cancer trial and adjuvant imatinib trials in GIST.

Heikki Peltola

Heikki Peltola is a Finnish pediatric infectious-diseases researcher at the University of Helsinki, known for Hib vaccine trials in about 90,000 infants and Finland's two-dose MMR program.

Heikki V. Huikuri

Heikki V. Huikuri, born 1952, is a Finnish cardiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Oulu known for research on heart-rate variability and sudden cardiac death.

Heiko Braak

Heiko Braak (born 1937) is a German neuroanatomist, professor at the University of Ulm, whose Braak stages of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are used worldwide.

Heiko Lickert

Heiko Lickert is a German developmental and stem cell biologist who studies pancreatic beta cells and directs the Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research at Helmholtz Munich since 2011.

Heimo Ehmke

Heimo Ehmke is a German physician and physiologist at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, where he directs the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Physiology and studies hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias.

Hein G. Gooszen

Hein G. Gooszen, born 1948 in Zeist, is a Dutch gastrointestinal surgeon who led the PANTER and PROPATRIA pancreatitis trials and was professor of surgery at Utrecht.