Life and health scientists

Hua Yu (cancer researcher)

Hua Yu is a cancer researcher and Wilder Professor at City of Hope in Duarte, California, whose laboratory established the signaling protein STAT3 as a molecular target for cancer immunotherapy.

Huan-Xiang Zhou is a biophysicist, professor and LAS Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago since 2017, known for work on protein binding kinetics, ion-channel gating, and biomolecular condensates.

Huaxi Xu

Huaxi Xu (徐华西) was a neuroscientist who studied the cell biology of Alzheimer's disease, known for work on APP processing and for identifying TREM2 as a receptor for β-amyloid.

Hubert Amrein

Hubert Amrein is a Swiss-trained neuroscientist and professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine known for research on taste perception and nutrient sensing in fruit flies.

Hubert J. Wolfe

Hubert J. Wolfe is an American physician-scientist and pathologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, known for the 1973 discovery that C-cell hyperplasia precedes hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Huck Hui Ng

Huck Hui Ng is a Singapore-based stem cell biologist who led the Genome Institute of Singapore and is known for mapping transcription factors that define pluripotency.

Huda Akil

Huda Akil is a Syrian-born American neuroscientist at the University of Michigan known for discovering stimulation-produced analgesia, providing the first physiological evidence for endorphins, and receiving the 2023 National Medal of Science.

Huda Y. Zoghbi

Huda Y. Zoghbi is a Lebanese-born American neurogeneticist at Baylor College of Medicine whose lab found that MECP2 mutations cause Rett syndrome and identified the gene for spinocerebellar ataxia type 1.

Hudson H. Freeze

Hudson H. Freeze is an American glycobiologist who directs the Sanford Children's Health Research Center and studies congenital disorders of glycosylation, rare inherited sugar-chain diseases.

Hudson K. Reeve

Hudson Kern Reeve is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Animal Behavior at Cornell University, known for work on reproductive skew, kin selection, and naked mole-rats.

Hugh A. Sampson

Hugh A. Sampson is a pediatric allergist and immunologist, Director Emeritus of Mount Sinai's Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.

Hugh Calkins

Hugh Calkins is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins, led the 2017 RE-CIRCUIT trial, and is a past President of the Heart Rhythm Society.

Hugh Carroll Hemmings Jr.

Hugh Carroll Hemmings Jr. is an American anesthesiologist and pharmacologist who chairs Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Hugh D. Robertson

Hugh D. Robertson, or Hugh Robertson, was an American molecular biologist (1943–2005) who discovered RNase III and spent decades at Rockefeller University and Cornell Medical School studying viral RNA.

Hugh Huxley

Hugh Huxley (1924–2013) was an English molecular biologist who established the sliding filament theory and swinging cross-bridge model of muscle contraction, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Brandeis University.

Oct 10, 2026

Hugh Montgomery (British physician)

Hugh Montgomery is a British physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for a 1998 Nature paper linking the ACE gene to fitness.

Hugh O. McDevitt

Hugh O'Neill McDevitt (1930–2022) was an American immunologist who spent over fifty years at Stanford, discovering immune response genes and linking MHC variation to autoimmune diseases like diabetes.

Hugh Possingham

Hugh P. Possingham is an Australian mathematical ecologist at the University of Queensland who applies decision science and economics to conservation, co-developing the Marxan planning software.

Hugh R. Taylor

Hugh R. Taylor is an Australian ophthalmologist and University of Melbourne professor who established the link between ultraviolet radiation and cataract and led Australia's trachoma elimination.

Hugh R. Woodland

Hugh R. Woodland is a retired developmental biologist at the University of Warwick known for identifying the Xsox17 genes that mediate endoderm formation in frog embryos.

Hugh R.B. Pelham

Hugh R.B. Pelham, also known as Hugh Pelham, is a British cell biologist who identified the KDEL signal retaining proteins in the ER and directed the LMB from 2006 to 2018.

Hugh S. Markus

Hugh S. Markus is a British neurologist, Professor of Stroke Medicine at Cambridge since 2013, known for research on stroke genetics and cerebral small vessel disease.

Hugh S. Taylor

Hugh S. Taylor is an American physician-scientist who chairs Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine and is known for endometriosis research.

Hugh Smith Taylor

Hugh Smith Taylor is an American reproductive medicine researcher who chairs Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale and led the trials behind elagolix approval.

Hugh Watkins (British physician-scientist)

Hugh Watkins is a British physician-scientist at the University of Oxford who established that mutations in the heart's motor proteins cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and who leads CureHeart.

Hugo A. Katus

Hugo A. Katus, born 1951, is a German cardiologist who invented the cardiac troponin T blood test and led cardiology at Heidelberg University Hospital from 2002 to 2020.

Hugo Aerts

Hugo Aerts is a Dutch scientist in radiomics and medical imaging AI, a professor at Harvard and Dana-Farber who directs the AIM Program at Mass General Brigham in Boston.

Hugo de Vries

Hugo de Vries (1848–1935) was a Dutch botanist and founder of genetics, first to publish the rediscovered Mendel's laws in 1900 and known for his mutation theory.

Hugo J. Bellen

Hugo J. Bellen is a Drosophila geneticist and neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for building genome-wide fly genetic tools and finding human neurological disease genes.