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Henk F. Tabak

Henk F. Tabak (1941–2026) was a Dutch biochemist known for work on RNA splicing in yeast mitochondria and on peroxisome formation from the endoplasmic reticulum.

Henk Lamberts

Henk Lamberts was a Dutch general practitioner and professor at the University of Amsterdam, internationally known as the leading developer of the International Classification of Primary Care.

Henlius rituximab biosimilar (HLX01, Hanlikang)

HLX01, sold in China as Hanlikang (汉利康), is a rituximab biosimilar developed by Shanghai Henlius Biotech and approved in 2019 as the first biosimilar approved in China.

Henlius trastuzumab biosimilar (HLX02, Hanquyou)

HLX02 (Hanquyou 汉曲优, Zercepac, HERCESSI) is Shanghai Henlius's trastuzumab biosimilar for HER2-positive breast and gastric cancers, the first China-made monoclonal antibody biosimilar approved in China, the EU, and the US.

Henna-Maria Uusitupa

Henna-Maria Uusitupa, also published as Henna-Maria Kailanto, is a Finnish food chemistry researcher who studied early-life nutrition at the University of Turku and led DuPont's Infant Health Platform.

Henneguya zschokkei

Henneguya zschokkei is a myxozoan parasite, a microscopic cnidarian relative of jellyfish, that infects the muscle of whitefish and other salmonids in Europe and North America.

Hennekam syndrome

Hennekam syndrome, also called Hennekam lymphangiectasia-lymphedema syndrome, is a rare inherited disorder of lymphatic development featuring congenital lymphedema, intestinal lymphangiectasia, variable intellectual disability, and a distinctive face.

Hennepin County Medical Center

Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), also known as Hennepin Healthcare, is Minneapolis' public safety-net hospital and Level 1 trauma center, founded 1887 as Minneapolis City Hospital, county-owned since 1963, with Minnesota's largest emergency department.

Henning Bundgaard

Henning Bundgaard is a Danish cardiologist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen and senior consultant at Rigshospitalet, known for leading the POET and POTCAST trials.

Henning Hermjakob

Henning Hermjakob is a bioinformatician who leads Molecular Systems at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, heading IntAct, Reactome, and BioModels and co-founding the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative.

Henning Pontoppidan

Henning Pontoppidan (1925–2017) was an American anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who established the nation's first respiratory intensive care unit in 1961 and pioneered mechanical ventilation research.

Henning Walczak

Henning Walczak is a German molecular biologist and cancer researcher who studies cell death and ubiquitin signaling in cancer, and is a professor at the University of Cologne and UCL.

Henoch–Schönlein purpura

Henoch–Schönlein purpura, now called IgA vasculitis (IgAV), is an immune complex small-vessel vasculitis causing palpable purpura, joint and abdominal symptoms, and kidney involvement, mostly in children aged 4–7.

Henri Bismuth

Henri Bismuth (born 1934) is a French hepatobiliary surgeon and pioneer of liver transplantation, the first in France to launch a hepatic transplantation program in the 1970s.

Henri Bounameaux

Henri Bounameaux, born 1953 in Liège, Belgium, is a Swiss physician-scientist who built Geneva University Hospitals' angiology service into an international reference center for pulmonary embolism.

Henri Carré

Henri Carré (1870–1938) was a French veterinarian who showed in 1905 that the disease of young dogs is caused by a filterable virus, known in French as the maladie de Carré.

Henri Coutard

Henri Coutard (1876–1950) was a French radiation therapist at the Curie Institute in Paris who pioneered fractionated radiotherapy, delivering small daily radiation doses over several weeks.

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) was a French zoologist who studied corals, molluscs, and ascidians, founded the Roscoff and Banyuls-sur-Mer marine laboratories, and is regarded as the founder of experimental zoology in France.

Henri Duret

Henri Duret (1849–1921) was a French surgeon and neurologist who first mapped the arterial territories of the brainstem and cerebral cortex; brainstem microbleeds called Duret haemorrhages bear his name.

Henri G. Hers

Henri-Géry Hers (1923–2008) was a Belgian biochemist at the Université Catholique de Louvain who classified glycogen storage diseases, conceived the concept of inborn lysosomal disease, and discovered fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, winning the 1988 Wolf Prize.

Henri Huchard

Henri Huchard (1844–1910) was a French physician at the Hôpitaux Bichat and Necker, a foremost Paris teacher remembered for "maladie de Huchard", continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis.

Henri Korn

Henri Korn (1934–2023) was a French physician and cellular neurobiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur and former student of John Carew Eccles, known for quantal analysis of synaptic transmission.

Henri Milne-Edwards

Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) was a French zoologist specializing in invertebrates who held chairs at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and wrote the Histoire naturelle des Crustacés.

Henri R. Manasse Jr.

Henri R. Manasse Jr. is an American pharmacy leader and medication-safety advocate, former chief executive officer of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and dean emeritus of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy.

Henricus Weve

Henricus Jacobus Marie Weve (1888–1962) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and professor at Utrecht University, ranked among Europe's leading retinal surgeons for improving Gonin's retinal detachment operation and pioneering diathermy.

Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951), African American woman whose cervical cancer cells, taken without consent at Johns Hopkins in 1951, became the HeLa immortal cell line, foundational to the polio, HPV, and COVID-19 vaccines and to research ethics reform.

Henrik Dam

Henrik Carl Peter Dam (1895–1976) was a Danish biochemist who discovered vitamin K, needed for blood coagulation, winning the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Henrik Dohlman

Henrik Dohlman is a Swedish-American biochemist and chair of pharmacology at UNC Chapel Hill who studies G protein signaling and identified the first RGS protein in 1995.

Henrik Garoff

Henrik Garoff is a Swedish virologist at Karolinska Institutet in Huddinge who studies how virus spike proteins drive cell entry by membrane fusion, chiefly in Semliki Forest virus.

Henrik H. Bendixen

Henrik H. Bendixen, also known as Henrik Holt Bendixen, was a Danish-born American anesthesiologist who chaired anesthesiology at Columbia and became its dean of medicine.