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Howard B. Sprague

Howard B. Sprague (1895–1970) was an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School teacher, known for applying phonocardiography to the study of auscultation.

Howard Bachrach

Howard Bachrach (1920–2008) was an American virologist and biochemist who spent his USDA career at Plum Island, purifying poliovirus and producing the first genetically engineered vaccine, against foot-and-mouth disease.

Howard C. Berg

Howard C. Berg (Howard Curtis Berg, 1934–2021) was an American biophysicist at Harvard and the Rowland Institute who worked out how E. coli swims and steers toward food.

Howard C. Herrmann

Howard C. Herrmann is an American interventional cardiologist and John W. Bryfogle Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, a leading investigator in transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Howard C. Thomas

Howard C. Thomas, or Howard Christopher Thomas, is a British hepatologist born in 1945 who defined the phases of chronic hepatitis B and led the first European interferon trials.

Howard Cedar

Howard Cedar, born Haim Cedar, is an Israeli-American biochemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1973 whose work on DNA methylation helped establish epigenetics.

Howard Charles Goodman

Howard Charles Goodman (1920–1998) was an American immunologist who directed clinical immunology research at the NIH, led WHO's immunology department and tropical disease program, and ended his career at Johns Hopkins.

Howard D. Kolodny

Howard D. Kolodny is an American endocrinologist in Great Neck, New York, who trained at NYU and Mount Sinai and published 1971 studies of chlorpromazine as a growth hormone suppressor.

Howard Dully

Howard Dully, American bus driver and author, lobotomized at age 12 in 1960 by Dr. Walter Freeman; told his story in the 2005 NPR documentary and 2007 memoir My Lobotomy.

Howard E. Gendelman

Howard E. Gendelman is a physician-scientist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center whose group reported the first elimination of HIV from live animals in 2019 and co-developed LASER ART.

Howard E. Morgan

Howard E. Morgan (1927–2009) was an American cardiac physiologist who studied heart metabolism and workload-driven growth, chaired Physiology at Penn State, and led the American Heart Association.

Howard E. Skipper

Howard Earle Skipper was an American cancer researcher at the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, who developed the quantitative basis of modern cancer chemotherapy.

Howard Eichenbaum

Howard Eichenbaum (1947–2017) was an American cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University, where he directed the Center for Memory and Brain, showed the hippocampus supports memory in animals, and discovered "time cells."

Howard Ensign Evans

Howard Ensign Evans (1919–2002) was an American entomologist who chiefly studied wasps, taught at Harvard and Colorado State, and pioneered the use of behavioral data in classification.

Howard F. Polley

Howard F. Polley was an American rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who co-authored the April 1949 report announcing cortisone's dramatic effects on rheumatoid arthritis.

Howard F. Root

Howard F. Root (1890–1967) was an American physician and diabetes researcher at Harvard and the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston who gave New England's first insulin injection in 1922.

Howard Frumkin

Howard Frumkin is an American physician-epidemiologist, dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health from 2010 to 2016 and CDC environmental health director, known for planetary health research.

Howard Gest

Howard Gest (1921–2012) was an American microbiologist and biochemist who discovered light-dependent hydrogen production by photosynthetic bacteria in 1949 and described Heliobacterium chlorum in 1983, spending most of his career at Indiana University.

Howard Green (cell biologist)

Howard Green (1925–2015) was a Canadian-born American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School who developed cultured skin grafts for burn patients, a foundation of regenerative medicine.

Howard H. Goldman

Howard H. Goldman is an American psychiatrist and mental health policy researcher, a University of Maryland professor since 1985 who edited the 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health.

Howard Holtzer

Howard Holtzer (1922–2014) was an American cell and developmental biologist who spent his career at the University of Pennsylvania studying how embryonic cells commit to lineages.

Howard I. Scher

Howard I. Scher is an American medical oncologist specializing in advanced prostate cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who led the phase 3 enzalutamide trial AFFIRM.

Howard J. Cooke

Howard J. Cooke is a molecular geneticist and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh who identified Y chromosome-specific repeated DNA in 1976 and studied sex chromosome telomeres.

Howard J. Weinstein

Howard J. Weinstein (Howard Jeffrey Weinstein) is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and Harvard professor known for childhood leukemia research, including the Pediatric Oncology Group AML trials.

Howard K. Koh

Howard K. Koh (Howard Kyongju Koh) is an American physician and Harvard public health professor who served as US Assistant Secretary for Health from 2009 to 2014.

Howard Krein

Howard Krein is an American otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon, Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, director of the Herbert Kean Center for Facial Aesthetics, chief medical officer of StartUp Health, and son-in-law of Joe Biden through his marriage to Ashley Biden.

Howard L. Bailit

Howard L. Bailit is an American dental public health researcher and professor at the University of Connecticut, known for studies of dental access and asthma care.

Howard L. Bleich

Howard L. Bleich was an American physician and founder of medical informatics who built PaperChase, the first program letting clinicians search MEDLINE, and won the Morris F. Collen Award.

Howard L. Fields

Howard L. Fields, also known as Howard Fields, was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCSF who showed how endogenous opioids suppress pain and mediate placebo analgesia.

Howard L. Judd

Howard L. Judd, also known as H L Judd, was an American reproductive endocrinologist and UCLA professor internationally recognized for research on menopause, endometriosis, and polycystic ovarian disease.