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Hervé Dombret

Hervé Dombret is a French hematologist at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris specializing in adult acute leukemia; he led the ALFA and GRAALL groups and the ALFA-0701 gemtuzumab trial.

Hervé Philippe

Hervé Philippe is a molecular phylogeneticist who held a Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics at Université de Montréal, known for Nature papers on early animal evolution.

Hervé Tilly

Hervé Tilly is a French hematologist-oncologist at the Centre Henri Becquerel in Rouen who led the PRIMA and POLARIX lymphoma trials and directed the center from 2007 to 2017.

Hervé Vaucheret

Hervé Vaucheret is a French plant molecular biologist at INRAE in Versailles who has led an epigenetics team since 1993 and defined the mechanisms of RNA silencing in plants.

Herwig Baier

Herwig Baier is a neuroscientist who directs the Department Genes – Circuits – Behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, using zebrafish to study behavior.

Hesham A. Sadek

Hesham A. Sadek is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist who showed the newborn mouse heart regenerates by cell division, a capacity lost by seven days of age.

Heymut Omran

Heymut Omran, born 1967 in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany, is a German pediatric pulmonologist and cilia researcher at University Hospital Münster known for identifying genes that cause primary ciliary dyskinesia.

Hidde Ploegh

Hidde Ploegh, born in 1953, is a Dutch-born immunologist and biochemist known for his analysis of MHC antigen presentation and for developing the sortagging protein-labeling method.

Hiddo J.L. Heerspink

Hiddo J.L. Heerspink, also known as Hiddo Lambers Heerspink, is a Dutch clinical pharmacologist at the University Medical Center Groningen who leads chronic kidney disease drug trials.

Hideaki Kato

Hideaki Kato (加藤 英明) is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo's RCAST who determines structures of membrane proteins such as channelrhodopsins and GPCRs.

Hidehiko Inagaki

Hidehiko Inagaki is a Japanese systems neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, studying how the brain times actions.

Hidehiko Saito

Hidehiko Saito (齋藤英彦) is a Japanese hematologist, professor emeritus of Nagoya University, known for identifying the Fletcher and Fitzgerald clotting factors and establishing the MEG-01 leukemia cell line.

Hidekazu Tsukamoto

Hidekazu Tsukamoto is an American hepatologist, professor of Pathology and Medicine at USC, who directs the Southern California Research Center for Alcohol-Associated Liver and Pancreatic Diseases.

Hideki Kandori

Hideki Kandori (神取 秀樹) is a Japanese biophysicist at Nagoya Institute of Technology known for microbial rhodopsins and optogenetics, including discovering the sodium-pump rhodopsin KR2.

Hideki Taniguchi

Hideki Taniguchi (谷口 英樹) is a Japanese physician-scientist who heads regenerative medicine at the University of Tokyo, known for creating vascularized human liver tissue from iPS cells in 2013.

Hidenori Ichijo

Hidenori Ichijo (一條秀憲), born in 1958, is a Japanese biochemist known for discovering ASK1 and the ASK family of stress-response enzymes, winning the 2021 Japan Academy Prize.

Hidesaburô Hanafusa

Hidesaburô Hanafusa, known as Saburo (1929–2009), was a Japanese virologist at The Rockefeller University who showed that retroviral cancer genes come from healthy host cells, work honored by the 1982 Lasker Award.

Hideyo Noguchi (野口英世)

Hideyo Noguchi (野口英世, 1876-1928), Japanese bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute; proved syphilis spirochete causes neurosyphilis, wrongly claimed Leptospira icteroides causes yellow fever, died of it in Accra, Ghana, 1928; on the 1,000-yen note.

Hideyoshi Harashima

Hideyoshi Harashima (原島 秀吉) is a Japanese pharmaceutical scientist at Hokkaido University who developed the MEND nanocarrier and programmed packaging for delivering DNA, siRNA, and mRNA into cells.

Hideyuki Okano

Hideyuki Okano (岡野栄之, born 1959 in Tokyo) is a Japanese neuroscientist, professor of physiology at Keio University School of Medicine and leader of Japan's Brain/MINDS brain-mapping project.

Hilal A. Lashuel

Hilal A. Lashuel, also known as Hilal Lashuel, is a neuroscientist who studies protein misfolding in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and is Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar.

Hilary Koprowski

Hilary Koprowski (1916–2013) was a Polish-born American virologist who developed the first oral polio vaccine, trialed in 1950, and the oral rabies vaccine, directing The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia from 1957 to 1991.

Hilary Longhurst

Hilary Jane Longhurst is a New Zealand clinical immunologist and hereditary angioedema specialist at Auckland City Hospital who led the first CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing trials for the condition.

Hilde Mangold

Hilde Mangold (née Pröscholdt, 1898–1924) was a German embryologist whose 1923 dissertation under Hans Spemann discovered the embryonic organizer, the basis of his 1935 Nobel Prize.

Hildgund Schrempf

Hildgund Schrempf is a researcher at Osnabrück University who identified and cloned KcsA, the first known prokaryotic potassium ion channel, from Streptomyces lividans in 1995.

Hilding Berglund

Hilding Berglund (1887–1962) was a Swedish physician and professor of medicine specializing in kidney and metabolic disease, who taught at Harvard and Minnesota before leading a Stockholm clinic.

Hillel Adesnik

Hillel Adesnik is a neuroscientist and Associate Professor of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley who studies cortical microcircuits and received the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award.

Hilmar Bading

Hilmar Bading is a neuroscientist who has been Chair of Neurobiology at Heidelberg University since 2001, known for discovering nuclear calcium as the central mediator of activity-dependent gene expression.

Himadri B. Pakrasi

Himadri B. Pakrasi, also published as H. B. Pakrasi, is a biologist who studies cyanobacterial photosynthesis at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is the Freiberg Professor of Biology.

Himisha Beltran

Himisha Beltran is a medical oncologist and physician scientist, Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for research on treatment resistance and neuroendocrine prostate cancer.