Life and health

Huangqin Decoction

黄芩汤 (Huangqin Decoction): classical four-herb Chinese formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun (scutellaria, peony, licorice, jujube) for heat-type diarrhea; second-batch classic formula, 2023.

Huashan Hospital (华山医院), Fudan University, Shanghai; founded 1907 as the Chinese Red Cross General Hospital, first Chinese-run hospital in Shanghai; tertiary Grade A, 3,142 beds, national centers for neurological and infectious diseases.

Huashi Baidu granules

Huashi Baidu granules (化湿败毒颗粒) is a Chinese patent medicine developed in Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic and approved in China in March 2021 as one of the "three medicines and three formulations".

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.

Hucho hucho

Hucho hucho, the huchen or Danube salmon (Salmo hucho, Linnaeus 1758), is a large Danube-endemic salmonid top predator reaching 150 cm and 52 kg; IUCN Endangered 2008, Vulnerable 2024, sustained largely by stocking.

Hucho taimen

Hucho taimen, the Siberian taimen, is the world's largest salmonid (up to 2 m, 100 kg), a Vulnerable predatory fish of northern Asia from the Urals to the Pacific, declining 30-95% across China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia.

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.

Huckleberry

Huckleberry is a common name for berries of two Ericaceae genera: Gaylussacia (true eastern huckleberries, 10 hard seeds) and western Vaccinium species such as Vaccinium membranaceum, the commercially important Pacific Northwest black huckleberry.

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.

Hue

Hue: the color attribute ordering sensations around a color circle, independent of lightness and saturation. Rooted in cone-opponent retinal processing, formalized from Newton's color circle to CIECAM02 hue angle.

Hug machine

The hug machine, or squeeze machine, is a deep-pressure device invented by animal scientist Temple Grandin, who built the first one as a high school senior to calm her own anxiety.

Hügelkultur

Hügelkultur (mound culture) is a German-origin gardening method of building raised mounds over buried woody debris, promoted by Sepp Holzer and permaculture; it lacks peer-reviewed evidence, with mixed unpublished trial results.

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.

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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.