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Hiroyuki Ogata

Hiroyuki Ogata (緒方裕之, born 1968) is a Japanese bioinformatician and microbial ecologist, professor at Kyoto University, known for co-creating KEGG and for giant virus research.

Hisamaru Hirai

Hisamaru Hirai (平井 久丸, 1952–2003) was a Japanese hematologist and oncologist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for work on the molecular genetics of leukemia and MDS.

Hisao Masai

Hisao Masai (正井 久雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on DNA replication and, since 2018, Director General of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science.

Hisao Masukata

Hisao Masukata (升方 久夫) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Osaka University whose research established how DNA replication initiates in the ColE1 plasmid and fission yeast.

Hisao Ogawa

Hisao Ogawa (小川 久雄, born 1953) is a Japanese cardiologist who became the 14th president of Kumamoto University in 2021, after leading the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center.

Hisashi Arase

Hisashi Arase (荒瀬 尚) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at the University of Osaka known for work on autoimmunity, immune regulation, and host-pathogen interactions.

Hisashi Umemori

Hisashi Umemori is a neuroscientist and physician, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying FGF22 as a target-derived signal that organizes synapse formation.

Hisataka Kobayashi

Hisataka Kobayashi (小林久隆) is a Japanese-born physician-scientist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for developing near-infrared photoimmunotherapy, approved in Japan in 2020.

Hisham Mehanna

Hisham Mehanna (Hisham Mohamed Mehanna) is a British head and neck surgeon, Professor at the University of Birmingham, known for the PET-NECK and De-ESCALaTE HPV trials.

Hiten Madhani

Hiten D. Madhani is an American molecular biologist, professor and vice-chair of biochemistry at UCSF, known for RNA interference and epigenetics research in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

Hitinder S. Gurm

Hitinder S. Gurm is an interventional cardiologist at the University of Michigan who directs the statewide BMC2 quality collaborative and serves as interim Chief Medical Officer of Michigan Medicine.

Hitoshi Kihara

Hitoshi Kihara (木原均) was a Japanese plant geneticist, born in 1893, who founded wheat genome analysis and identified Aegilops squarrosa as the ancestor of common wheat.

Hitoshi Kikutani

Hitoshi Kikutani is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Osaka University known for identifying CD23 as the IgE receptor and pioneering the immune semaphorin concept.

Hitoshi Kurumizaka

Hitoshi Kurumizaka (胡桃坂 仁志) is a Japanese structural biologist who heads the Laboratory of Chromatin Structure and Function at the University of Tokyo, known for his 2011 human centromeric nucleosome structure.

Hitoshi Sakano

Hitoshi Sakano (坂野 仁) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Fukui known for the molecular identity code that sorts olfactory sensory axons in mice.

Hitoshi Takahashi

Hitoshi Takahashi (高橋 均) is a Japanese neuropathologist, professor emeritus at Niigata University, known for showing that α-synuclein accumulates in Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease.

Hjalmar August Schiøtz

Hjalmar August Schiøtz (1850–1927) was a Norwegian ophthalmologist who introduced the indentation tonometer bearing his name in 1905, for decades the world's standard for measuring eye pressure.

Holcombe E. Grier

Holcombe E. Grier is an American pediatric oncologist and Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, based at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for Ewing sarcoma trials and end-of-life care.

Holger Dau

Holger Dau (born 1958) is a biophysicist known for research on photosynthetic water oxidation; his 2023 Nature paper identified the long-postulated S4 state of photosystem II as an oxygen-radical state.

Holger Dobbek

Holger Dobbek is a structural biologist and biochemist who has been professor of Structural Biology and Biochemistry at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009, known for his structures of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.

Holger J. Schünemann

Holger J. Schünemann, also known as Holger Schünemann, is a physician-scientist in clinical epidemiology known for co-leading GRADE, the worldwide system for rating medical evidence.

Holger Jannasch

Holger Windekilde Jannasch (1927–1998) was a German-born microbial ecologist and oceanographer who pioneered deep-sea microbiology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, best known for showing how chemosynthetic bacteria sustain life at hydrothermal vents.

Holger K. Eltzschig

Holger K. Eltzschig is a German-trained anesthesiologist and physician-scientist who chairs anesthesiology at UTHealth Houston, known for NEJM reviews on hypoxia and inflammation and pharmacologic organ protection.

Holger Kreft

Holger Kreft is a German biogeographer and biodiversity scientist, full professor and head of the Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography at the University of Göttingen since 2017.

Holger Puchta

Holger Puchta (born 1960 in Ingolstadt) is a German molecular biologist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology known for pioneering plant genome engineering and CRISPR/Cas chromosome restructuring.

Holger Sondermann

Holger Sondermann is a structural biologist known for crystal structures of the Ras activator Son of Sevenless and bacterial biofilm signaling, who joined DESY and Kiel University in 2020.

Holger Stark

Holger Stark is a German structural biologist and Max Planck director in Göttingen whose group determined protein structures by cryo-EM down to 1.25 ångströms in 2020.

Hölger Thiele

Holger Thiele (born 1969) is a German cardiologist who directs cardiology at the Heart Center Leipzig and is known for the cardiogenic shock trials ECLS-SHOCK, TOMAHAWK, and CULPRIT-SHOCK.

Holger Werfel Scheuermann

Holger Werfel Scheuermann (1877–1960) was a Danish surgeon and radiologist in Copenhagen who in 1920 described the rigid adolescent spinal deformity known as Scheuermann's disease, using X-rays to distinguish it from postural hunch-back.

Holger Willenbring

Holger Willenbring is a German-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Surgery at UCSF, where he directs the Liver Center and works on liver regeneration and stem-cell-based liver therapy.