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Hiroaki Mitsuya
Hiroaki Mitsuya (満屋裕明) is a Japanese physician-scientist who identified AZT's anti-HIV activity, developed didanosine, zalcitabine, and darunavir, and won the 2015 Japan Academy Prize.
Hiroaki Shimokawa
Hiroaki Shimokawa (下川 宏明) is a Japanese cardiologist who created the first animal model of coronary artery spasm and identified Rho-kinase as its molecular switch.
Hirofumi Toda
Hirofumi Toda is a Japanese neurogeneticist at the University of Tsukuba's sleep institute who identified the sleep-inducing gene nemuri through a screen of over 12,000 fruit fly lines, published in Science in 2019.
Hiroki R. Ueda
Hiroki R. Ueda (上田 泰己) is a Japanese systems biologist and chronobiology researcher, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for work on mammalian circadian clocks and sleep.
Hirola
The hirola, also called Hunter's antelope or Hunter's hartebeest, is a critically endangered antelope native to the Kenya–Somalia border region and the only living member of its genus Beatragus.
Hiromi Sesaki
Hiromi Sesaki is a Japanese-born cell biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who studies mitochondrial fusion and division, including a 2025 Nature finding on Parkin and OMA1.
Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Hiromitsu Nakauchi (中内啓光) is a Japanese stem cell biologist and physician, Professor of Genetics at Stanford, known for demonstrating single hematopoietic stem cell reconstitution and pioneering blastocyst complementation.
Hiroo Fukuda
Hiroo Fukuda (福田 裕穂) is a Japanese plant biologist known for work on xylem formation and CLE peptide signaling, and became president of Akita Prefectural University in 2023.
Hiroshi Hamada
Hiroshi Hamada (濱田 博司) is a Japanese developmental biologist known for discovering Lefty and working out how the mouse embryo determines left-right asymmetry, leading a RIKEN laboratory until 2023.
Hiroshi Handa
Hiroshi Handa (半田 宏) is a Japanese molecular biologist and biochemist at Tokyo Medical University known for discovering DSIF and NELF and identifying cereblon as thalidomide's target.
Hiroshi Itoh
Hiroshi Itoh (伊藤 裕) is a Japanese nephrologist and endocrinologist who was Professor and Chairman of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nephrology at Keio University School of Medicine from 2006 to 2023.
Hiroshi Kawaguchi (orthopedic surgeon)
Hiroshi Kawaguchi (川口浩) is a Japanese orthopedic surgeon-scientist who spent most of his career at the University of Tokyo and led the ROAD osteoarthritis cohort study.
Hiroshi Kawasaki (河崎 洋志)
Hiroshi Kawasaki (河崎 洋志) is a Japanese physician-scientist, professor of brain and neurosciences at Kanazawa University, known for genetic tools that make folded ferret and primate brains experimentally tractable.
Hiroshi Maeda
Hiroshi Maeda (前田 浩; 1938–2021) was a Japanese drug delivery scientist who discovered the EPR effect, the basis of cancer nanomedicine, and created the drug SMANCS.
Hiroshi Nikaido
Hiroshi Nikaido is a Japanese-born American microbiologist and UC Berkeley professor emeritus known for discovering porins and broad-specificity multidrug efflux pumps underlying bacterial antibiotic resistance.
Hiroshi Nikaidō
Hiroshi Nikaidō is a Japanese-born American microbiologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for discovering bacterial porins and broad-specificity multidrug efflux pumps, key mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.
Hiroshi Nishimasu
Hiroshi Nishimasu (西増 弘志) is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for the first crystal structure of the Cas9 genome-editing complex.
Hiroshi Ohno
Hiroshi Ohno (大野 博司, born 1958 in Tokyo) is a Japanese mucosal immunologist and physician who leads the Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem at RIKEN, studying how gut bacteria and immunity regulate each other.
Hiroshi Takayanagi
Hiroshi Takayanagi (高柳 広), born 1965, is a Japanese immunologist and University of Tokyo professor who founded osteoimmunology and received the 2019 Japan Academy Prize for that work.
Hiroshi Takeshima
Hiroshi Takeshima (竹島 浩) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Kyoto University until 2026, known for cloning the ryanodine receptor and discovering TRIC channels essential for calcium release.
Hiroshi Tamiya
Hiroshi Tamiya (田宮 博, 1903–1984) was a Japanese plant physiologist and microbiologist who pioneered synchronous culture of Chlorella and directed the Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research in Tokyo.
Hiroto Okayama
Hiroto Okayama (岡山 博人) is a Japanese molecular biologist who developed the Okayama–Berg full-length cDNA cloning method at Stanford, cloned the human oxytocin receptor, and studied cell-cycle checkpoints.
Hiroya Kuroda
Hiroya Kuroda, also known as Tokubei Kuroda (黒田徳米), was a Japanese malacologist, born in 1886, who led Japan's first generation of professional malacological taxonomists and published from 1907 to 1984.
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa (西川 博嘉, born 1970) is a Japanese tumor immunologist known for work on regulatory T cells in cancer immunity and the immuno-genomic cancer progression hypothesis.
Hiroyuki Mano
Hiroyuki Mano (間野博行) is a Japanese cancer genomics researcher who discovered the EML4-ALK fusion oncogene in lung cancer in 2007, enabling ALK inhibitors, and has been President of the National Cancer Center in Tokyo since 2025.
Hiroyuki Noji
Hiroyuki Noji (野地 博行) is a Japanese molecular biophysicist at the University of Tokyo known for directly observing a single F1-ATPase molecule rotating in 1997.
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.
Hirschsprung's disease
Hirschsprung's disease (aganglionic megacolon, HSCR): congenital absence of enteric nerve cells in the distal bowel, about 1 in 5,000 newborns, 80% short-segment, treated by pull-through surgery; main complication is enterocolitis.
Hirsutism
Hirsutism, also called male-pattern hair growth in women, is excessive terminal hair in androgen-dependent areas, affecting 5-10% of women; usually caused by PCOS, scored by Ferriman-Gallwey, treated with oral contraceptives, antiandrogens, and hair removal.
Hirudin
Hirudin, a 65-amino-acid peptide from Hirudo medicinalis leech saliva, is the most potent natural thrombin inhibitor; discovered 1884, purified by Markwardt 1957, recombinant 1986, basis of lepirudin, desirudin, and bivalirudin.