Life and health scientists

Hugo Kronecker

Hugo Kronecker (1839–1914) was a German physiologist, professor of physiology at the University of Bern from 1884, known for cardiac research identifying Kronecker's point and the refractory period.

Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932) was a German pharmacologist, professor of pharmacology at the University of Greifswald from 1883, credited with the Arndt–Schulz law and regarded as the discoverer of hormesis.

Hugo Sellheim

Hugo Sellheim (1871–1936) was a German physician and gynecologist whose experimental work produced the birth-mechanics law of least constraint; he held chairs at Düsseldorf, Tübingen, Halle, and Leipzig.

Hugo Tejeda

Hugo Tejeda is a circuit neuroscientist who leads the Unit on Neuromodulation and Synaptic Integration at NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland, and received the PECASE award in January 2025.

Hugo Ten Cate

Hugo ten Cate is a Dutch internist and physician-scientist, professor emeritus at Maastricht University, known for linking blood coagulation with inflammation and for advancing thrombin generation testing.

Hugo Theorell

Hugo Theorell, born Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell, was a Swedish biochemist at the Karolinska Institutet who won the 1955 Nobel Prize for work on oxidation enzymes.

Hugo Wilhelm Knipping

Hugo Wilhelm Knipping (1895–1984) was a German physician and internist who founded clinical spiroergometry, combining a gas-metabolism apparatus with a crank ergometer in 1929 and heading the University of Cologne's medical clinic from 1939 to 1963.

Hugo Zeberg

Hugo Zeberg is a Swedish physician and geneticist at Karolinska Institutet known for showing, with Svante Pääbo, that a Neanderthal-inherited gene segment raises the risk of severe COVID-19.

Hugues de The

Hugues de The (Hugues de Thé), born 1959, is a French physician-scientist at the Collège de France who explained how retinoic acid and arsenic cure acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Hui Zheng

Hui Zheng is a neuroscientist and mouse geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for pioneering mouse models of APP and presenilins in Alzheimer's disease.

Hui-Kuan Lin

Hui-Kuan Lin (林慧观) is a Taiwanese cancer biologist known for work on ubiquitination and metabolism in cancer, a professor at Duke University elected an Academician of Academia Sinica in 2022.

Hui-Young Lee

Hui-Young Lee is a South Korean scientist who studies insulin resistance, mitochondrial function, and diabetes, and co-authored the 2014 Nature paper on how metformin works.

Huimin Zhao

Huimin Zhao is a synthetic biologist and chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who develops machine learning, laboratory automation, and photoenzymatic tools for engineering proteins and metabolic pathways.

Humberto Fernández-Morán

Humberto Fernández-Morán (1924–1999) was a Venezuelan biophysicist who invented the diamond knife, founded what is now the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, and built the first electron cryomicroscope with superconducting lenses.

Hung Fan

Hung Fan is an American molecular biologist and virologist, emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for research on murine leukemia virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.

Hung‐wen Liu

Hung-wen Liu (刘鸿文), known as Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, is a Taiwanese-born chemical biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies enzyme mechanisms and antibiotic sugar biosynthesis.

Hunter Fraser

Hunter B. Fraser is a population and evolutionary geneticist and Professor of Biology at Stanford University whose lab studies how the evolution of gene expression produces complex traits.

Hunter Heath

Hunter Heath is an American endocrinologist known for research on calcitonin and primary hyperparathyroidism, who trained at Walter Reed, worked at Mayo Clinic, and later joined Indiana University.

Huntington F. Willard

Huntington F. Willard is an American human geneticist known for discovering XIST, the RNA controlling X-chromosome inactivation, and for creating the first human artificial chromosome in 1997.

Huntington Potter

Huntington Potter is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado who researches Alzheimer's disease, its link to Down syndrome, and GM-CSF treatment trials.

Huseyin Naci

Huseyin Naci is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics, where he founded the Pharmaceutical Policy Lab and studies the evidence behind new drug approval and use.

Hussein A. Tawbi

Hussein A. Tawbi, also known as Hussein Tawbi, is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led pivotal immunotherapy trials for melanoma that has spread to the brain.

Husseini K. Manji

Husseini K. Manji is a physician-scientist in mood disorders research, Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford who shared the 2023 Sarnat Prize for discovering ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.

Hyejung Won

Hyejung Won (원혜정) is a South Korean neurogeneticist and tenured associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for H-MAGMA and a 2019 NIH New Innovator Award.

Hyeryun Choe

Hyeryun Choe is a virologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for identifying the HIV-1 coreceptors CCR3 and CCR5 and studying virus entry.

Hyman B. Muss

Hyman B. Muss is an American medical oncologist specializing in geriatric oncology and breast cancer, who led the first chemotherapy trial in older patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Hyman J. Zimmerman

Hyman J. Zimmerman (1914–1999) was an American hepatologist who created the modern study of drug-induced liver injury; his observation became Hy's law, used in FDA drug-safety evaluation.

Hynek Wichterle

Hynek Wichterle is a molecular biologist and stem-cell neuroscientist at Columbia University known for directing embryonic stem cells to become motor neurons and modeling ALS.

Hyo‐Soo Kim

Hyo-Soo Kim (김효수) is a South Korean cardiologist, professor of internal medicine at Seoul National University, known for large randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting and cardiovascular stem cell research.