# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adel-mahmoud
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:37:19.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adel-mahmoud"
name: "Adel Mahmoud"
slug: "adel-mahmoud"
description: "Adel K. Mahmoud was an Egyptian-born American doctor and expert in infectious diseases. He was credited with helping with the development of the Gardasil HPV vaccine and the rotavirus vaccine while serving as President of Merck Vaccines. Both the HPV and rotavirus vaccines were under development prior to Mahmoud joining Merck Vaccine Division; he assisted in ensuring that they remained a priority for Merck to continue development to commercial launch. After retiring from Merck he became a professor at Princeton University."
tagline: "American doctor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adel_Mahmoud.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-08-24"
deathDate: "2018-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.137905333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ਅਡੇਲ ਮਹਮੂਦ"
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    title: "عادل محمود (طبيب)"
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    title: "عادل محمود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আদেল মাহমুদ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Mahmoud"
    title: "Adel Mahmoud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Mahmoud"
    title: "Adel Mahmoud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "عادل محمود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump