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HeLa

HeLa is the first immortal human cell line, established in 1951 by George Gey at Johns Hopkins from Henrietta Lacks' cervical cancer cells; used in over 110,000 publications, central to polio and HPV vaccines, and governed by the 2013 NIH-Lacks Family Agreement.

HeLa S3

HeLa S3 (ATCC CCL-2.2, Cellosaurus CVCL_0058) is a 1955 single-cell clone of the HeLa cervical cancer line, cloned by Puck, Marcus, and Cieciura; it carries HPV-18 and can be adapted to suspension culture.

Helder Maiato

Hélder Maiato, born 1976 in Matosinhos, Portugal, is a Portuguese cell biologist who studies chromosome segregation and leads the Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Laboratory at i3S, Porto.

Helen B. Taussig

Helen Brooke Taussig (1898-1986), American physician at Johns Hopkins, founder of pediatric cardiology, co-developer of the Blalock-Taussig blue baby operation (1944), Lasker Award and Medal of Freedom recipient, first woman president of the American Heart Association.

Helen Blau

Helen M. Blau is an American stem cell biologist at Stanford University known for showing that cell differentiation is reversible and for work on muscle regeneration.

Helen Burstin

Helen Burstin is an American physician and health services researcher who serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Helen E. Heslop

Helen E. Heslop is a New Zealand-trained physician-scientist in pediatric oncology at Baylor College of Medicine who pioneered virus-specific T cell therapy for EBV lymphomas and CAR-T immunotherapy.

Helen H. Hobbs

Helen H. Hobbs is an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern whose discovery that PCSK9 mutations lower LDL cholesterol led to a new class of cholesterol drugs.

Helen K. Reddel

Helen K. Reddel is an Australian respiratory physician and asthma researcher at Macquarie University and the Woolcock Institute who chairs the GINA Science Committee and directs ACAM.

Helen L. Smits

Helen L. Smits is an American physician who served as Deputy Administrator of Medicare's HCFA from 1993 to 1996 and chaired the Joint Commission board.

Helen L. Yin

Helen L. Yin, also published as Helen Yin, is an American cell biologist who discovered gelsolin, the first actin filament-severing protein, and is Professor of Physiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Helen M. Berman

Helen M. Berman is an American structural biologist and X-ray crystallographer who helped create the Protein Data Bank in 1971 and directed its US operation from 1998 to 2014.

Helen M. Colhoun

Helen M. Colhoun, also published as Helen Colhoun, is a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh known for leading the CARDS and SELECT diabetes trials.

Helen M. Ranney

Helen M. Ranney (1920–2010) was an American hematologist who first separated normal from sickle-cell hemoglobin and became the first woman to chair a US department of medicine.

Helen McNeill

Helen McNeill is a Canadian cell and developmental biologist at Washington University School of Medicine known for her research on Fat cadherins and the Hippo pathway.

Helen Muir

Helen Muir, christened Isabella Helen Mary Muir, was a British biochemist who established the molecular biology of cartilage proteoglycans and directed the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology from 1977 to 1990.

Helen Neville

Helen J. Neville (1946–2018) was a Canadian-born cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oregon known for research on how experience reshapes the human brain, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Helen Piwnica‐Worms

Helen Piwnica-Worms is an American cancer biologist at MD Anderson known for showing how the CDK1 kinase drives mitosis and how checkpoints hold it off.

Helen R. Saibil

Helen R. Saibil is a Canadian-born structural biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Bernal Professor at Birkbeck, London, known for cryo-EM studies of chaperones and amyloid fibrils.

Helen Rizos

Helen Rizos (H. Rizos) is an Australian cancer cell biologist and professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, known internationally for research on melanoma senescence and targeted therapy.

Helen S. Mayberg

Helen S. Mayberg, also known as Helen Mayberg, is an American neurologist and neuropsychiatrist who pioneered deep brain stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate for treatment-resistant depression.

Helen Schucman

Helen Schucman (1909, New York City) was a Columbia University research psychologist who scribed A Course in Miracles (1965-1972) from an inner Voice she identified as Jesus, publishing anonymously; copyright assigned to the Foundation for Inner Peace.

Helen Skaletsky

Helen Skaletsky is a bioinformatics specialist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, first author of the 2003 Nature paper reporting the finished sequence of the human Y chromosome.

Helen Vlassara

Helen Vlassara is a biomedical researcher known for her work on advanced glycation end products in diabetes and aging, including the discovery of a macrophage receptor for AGE proteins in 1986.

Helena Edlund

Helena Edlund is a Swedish molecular developmental biologist and diabetes researcher, professor at Umeå University, known for showing that Pdx1 is required for pancreas development.

Helena Legido‐Quigley

Helena Legido-Quigley is a health systems and public health researcher who holds the Chair in Health Systems Science at Imperial College London, jointly with The George Institute.

Hélène Carabin

Hélène Carabin is a Canadian veterinary epidemiologist at Université de Montréal who studies zoonotic diseases and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Heleomyzidae

Heleomyzidae (sun flies, heleomyzid flies) is a family of about 738 saprophagous fly species in 76 genera, superfamily Sphaeroceroidea, with spiny costal veins, larvae in carrion, dung, and fungi, and debated family limits.

Helge B. Bode

Helge B. Bode (Helge Björn Bode, born 1973) is a chemical biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg who engineers bacterial enzymes that make natural products.

Helge Großhans

Helge Großhans is an RNA biologist and University of Basel professor at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, known for showing that mature microRNAs are actively degraded rather than stable.