Life and health

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.

Oct 20, 2026

Hugin (hug, CG6371) is a Drosophila neuropeptide gene homologous to mammalian neuromedin U and to insect pban; its ~20 subesophageal neurons regulate feeding initiation, locomotion, ecdysis, glucose sensing, and larval sleep via PK2-R1.

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.

Hugo K. Dooner

Hugo K. Dooner is a maize geneticist and Rutgers University professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 for research on transposable elements.

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

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.

Oct 21, 2026

Huh-7

Huh-7 (HuH-7, JTC-39, CVCL_0336) is a human hepatoma cell line established in 1982 from a 57-year-old Japanese man's hepatocellular carcinoma; with derivatives Huh7.5 and Huh7.5.1 it is the standard host for hepatitis C virus culture and a model for liver metabolism and cancer.