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Hein J.J. Wellens

Hein J.J. Wellens (Hein J. Wellens) was a Dutch cardiologist, born 1935 and died 2020, who was a founder of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and built Maastricht's arrhythmia service into an internationally recognized center.

Hein te Riele

Hein te Riele is a Dutch molecular biologist and group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for work on DNA mismatch repair and cancer.

Heine H. Hansen

Heine H. Hansen (1938–2011) was a Danish medical oncologist in Copenhagen who devoted his career to lung cancer and helped found the IASLC and ESMO.

Heiner Wedemeyer

Heiner Wedemeyer, born 1967 and recorded as Hans-Heinrich Wedemeyer, is a German hepatologist and director of gastroenterology at Hannover Medical School known for hepatitis D research and bulevirtide's development.

Heiner Westphal

Heiner Westphal is a molecular biologist and developmental geneticist who led the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at NICHD, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Heinrich Adolf Gottron

Heinrich Adolf Gottron (1890–1974) was a German dermatologist who described Gottron's papules and sign, the pathognomonic skin lesions of dermatomyositis, and held chairs at Breslau and Tübingen.

Heinrich Albert Johne

Heinrich Albert Johne (1839–1910) was a German veterinary anatomist and professor at the Dresden veterinary school who first described Johne's disease, or paratuberculosis, in cattle in 1895.

Heinrich Bechhold

Heinrich Jakob Bechhold (1866–1937) was a German colloid chemist in Frankfurt am Main who invented ultrafiltration in 1906 and directed the city's Institute for Colloid Research from 1911.

Heinrich Betz

Heinrich Betz, born 1944 in Reutlingen, Germany, is a German molecular neurobiologist who identified gephyrin and purified the first neurotransmitter receptor from the mammalian CNS.

Heinrich Braun

Heinrich Braun (1862–1934) was a German surgeon who made local anesthesia practical by adding adrenaline to cocaine, coined "conduction anesthesia", and led the Zwickau hospital.

Heinrich Curschmann

Heinrich Curschmann (1846–1910) was a German internist who built and directed the Hamburg-Eppendorf general hospital and the University of Leipzig medical clinic, and described the Curschmann spirals found in asthmatic sputum.

Heinrich Jasper

Heinrich Jasper is a German-educated aging and stem cell biologist who showed how stress signaling and immunity control stem cells in the aging fruit fly gut, and now leads regenerative medicine research at Genentech.

Heinrich Leonhardt

Heinrich Leonhardt is a German molecular biologist and epigeneticist, professor at LMU Munich since 2002, known for showing how DNA methyltransferase targets replication sites and for chromobody nanobodies.

Heinrich Matthaei

Heinrich Matthaei is a German biochemist who, as a postdoctoral fellow in Marshall Nirenberg's NIH laboratory, performed the 1961 poly-U experiment that deciphered the first codon of the genetic code.

Heinrich Quincke

Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842–1922) was a German internist who directed the Kiel Medical Clinic and introduced lumbar puncture in 1891; Quincke's edema and Quincke's pulse bear his name.

Heinrich R. Schelbert

Heinrich R. Schelbert is a nuclear medicine physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA, who developed cardiac PET for measuring myocardial blood flow and predicting recovery of dysfunctional heart muscle.

Heinrich Taegtmeyer

Heinrich Taegtmeyer (H. Taegtmeyer) is a cardiologist known for showing that metabolic changes drive remodeling of the failing and diabetic heart; he has taught at UTHealth Houston since 1982.

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921) was a German anatomist, physiologist, and pathologist who named the neuron in 1891 and the chromosome in 1888, and described Waldeyer's ring.

Heinrich Wilhelm Poll

Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877–1939) was a German anatomist and geneticist who pioneered twin research, built the Hamburgisches Zwillingsarchiv, and was dismissed in 1933 under the Nazi regime.

Heinz Arnheiter

Heinz Arnheiter is a Swiss scientist known for research on the Mx gene's resistance to influenza virus and for cloning the mouse microphthalmia gene Mitf, published in 1993.

Heinz Feldmann

Heinz Feldmann, born 1959 in Lippstadt, Germany, is a virologist who leads filovirus research at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories and developed the Ervebo Ebola vaccine.

Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) was a German-American biochemist and virologist at UC Berkeley who first reassembled a virus from protein and RNA in a test tube.

Heinz Köhler

Heinz Köhler is an immunologist known for studies of antibody diversity, idiotypy, and immune networks, including anti-idiotype vaccines, now emeritus at the University of Kentucky.

Heinz L. Sänger

Heinz L. Sänger (1928–2010) was a German molecular biologist and virologist who directed viroid research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and established the molecular nature of viroids.

Heinz Ludwig

Heinz Ludwig (born 1947) is an Austrian hematologist-oncologist who leads the Wilhelminen Cancer Research Institute in Vienna, known for showing in 1990 that erythropoietin corrects myeloma anemia.

Heinz Saedler

Heinz Saedler is a German molecular biologist known for work on transposable elements and flower development, directing the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research from 1980 to 2009.

Heinz Schaller

Heinz Schaller (1932–2010) was a German molecular biologist and virologist, professor at Heidelberg University, who identified DNA polymerase III, established hepatitis B virus replication, and co-founded Biogen.

Heinz Wiendl

Heinz Wiendl is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who has chaired Neurology at University Hospital Freiburg since 2024, after leading the department at Münster from 2013.

Heinz-Günter Wittmann

Heinz-Günter Wittmann (1927–1990) was a German biochemist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and sequenced nearly all E. coli ribosomal proteins.

Heinz‐Josef Lenz

Heinz-Josef Lenz is a German-trained American medical oncologist at the University of Southern California who leads gastrointestinal cancer research, known for pharmacogenomics of colorectal cancer drug response.