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Hollis Cline

Hollis T. Cline is an American developmental neuroscientist who was a professor at Scripps Research, known for showing how visual experience guides the development of visual circuits.

Holly A. Ingraham

Holly A. Ingraham, also published as H. A. Ingraham, is a molecular endocrinologist at UCSF known for identifying Pit-1 and for showing SF-1 drives gonadal sex differences.

Holly Hughes (research microbiologist)

Holly A. Hughes is an American CDC research microbiologist in Fort Collins, Colorado, who develops molecular diagnostics for arboviruses and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Homer Smith (renal physiologist)

Homer Smith (1895–1962) was an American renal physiologist at New York University whose inulin and PAH clearance methods made kidney function measurable in patients, winning the 1947 Lasker Award.

Hong Li (molecular biologist)

Hong Li is a structural molecular biologist and professor at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who uses cryo-EM to study CRISPR-Cas gene-editing enzymes and RNA-processing machinery.

Hong Mā

Hong Ma is a plant molecular biologist and Huck Chair at Penn State, known for his 1992 Cell paper on the floral gene AGAMOUS and for angiosperm phylogenomics.

Hong-Gil Nam

Hong-Gil Nam (남홍길) is a South Korean plant developmental geneticist known for work on the genetic control of plant aging and leaf senescence, and for the 2014 Ho-Am Prize in Science.

Hong‐Gang Wang

Hong-Gang Wang is a cancer biologist and the Lois High Berstler Professor of Pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, studying apoptosis, autophagy, and the Bcl-2 family.

Hong‐Wei Dong

Hong-Wei Dong, who publishes as Hongwei Dong, is a neurobiologist who maps the long-range wiring of the mouse brain, created the Allen Reference Atlas, and is a professor at UCLA.

Hongbin Li

Hongbin Li (李宏斌) is a Canada-based biophysical chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of British Columbia, who studies the mechanics of elastic proteins using single-molecule atomic force microscopy.

Hongbo Chi

Hongbo Chi is a Chinese-born immunologist who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on mTOR signaling, in vivo CRISPR screens, and T cell metabolism.

Hongbo R. Luo

Hongbo R. Luo is a molecular biologist who studies neutrophils, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital since 2004, known for work on inositol phosphate signaling.

Hongjun Song

Hongjun Song (宋红军) is a Chinese-born neuroscientist and stem cell biologist who is David J. Mahoney Professor and chair of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hongkui Zeng

Hongkui Zeng is a neuroscientist who leads the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and is known for building open-access atlases of brain cell types.

Hooman Kamel

Hooman Kamel is an American neurologist and clinical scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for research on stroke prevention, especially the link between cardiac disease and ischemic stroke.

Hoosen Coovadia

Hoosen Coovadia, known as Jerry, was a South African pediatrician and HIV researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal whose work on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission changed clinical practice across Africa, and who opposed AIDS denialism.

Hope S. Rugo

Hope S. Rugo is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, known for the phase 3 CAPItello-291 and ASCENT trials and, since 2025, chief of breast medical oncology at City of Hope.

Hopi Hoekstra

Hopi Hoekstra is an American evolutionary geneticist at Harvard, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 2023, known for studying the genetic and neural basis of adaptation and behavior in wild mice.

Horace Barker

Horace Albert Barker (1907–2000) was an American biochemist and microbiologist who spent his career at UC Berkeley and discovered the coenzyme form of vitamin B12 in 1958–59, winning the National Medal of Science in 1968.

Horace Barlow

Horace Barlow (1921–2020) was a British visual neuroscientist who treated vision as information processing, proposed the 1961 efficient coding hypothesis, and was the great-grandson of Charles Darwin.

Horace H. Loh

Horace H. Loh (罗浩) is a pharmacologist and neuroscientist known for research on morphine addiction and opioid receptors, a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Horace M. Gezon

Horace M. Gezon was an American epidemiologist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh who traced newborn nursery infection outbreaks and ran controlled hexachlorophene bathing trials in infants.

Horace W. Davenport

Horace W. Davenport, also known as Horace Willard Davenport, was an American gastrointestinal physiologist who defined the gastric mucosal barrier and chaired physiology at the University of Michigan from 1956.

Horace Winchell Magoun

Horace Winchell Magoun (1907–1991) was an American neuroscientist who established the brain stem reticular formation as an arousal system, wrote The Waking Brain (1958), and helped found UCLA's Brain Research Institute.

Horacio J. Adrogué

Horacio J. Adrogué, also published as H. J. Adrogue, is an Argentine-American nephrologist at Baylor College of Medicine known for his sodium-correction formulas for treating sodium disorders.

Horatio Curtis Wood Jr.

Horatio Curtis Wood Jr. (1841–1920) was an American physician and pharmacologist in Philadelphia, a longtime University of Pennsylvania professor and president of the US Pharmacopeial Convention.

Horst Kessler

Horst Kessler is a German bioorganic chemist, professor at the Technical University of Munich from 1989 to 2008, known for cyclic peptide conformational analysis and RGD-based integrin ligands.

Hossein Borghaei

Hossein Borghaei is an American medical oncologist who leads thoracic medical oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia and led the CheckMate 057 trial of nivolumab in lung cancer.

Housheng Hansen He

Housheng Hansen He is a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto professor known for prostate cancer epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, and circular RNA research.

Howard A. Bern

Howard A. Bern (1920–2012) was a Canadian-born comparative endocrinologist who spent his career at UC Berkeley, co-authored the field's first textbook, and pioneered research on endocrine disruption.