# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adrian-peter-bird
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:46:23.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adrian-peter-bird"
name: "Adrian Peter Bird"
slug: "adrian-peter-bird"
description: "Sir Adrian Peter Bird is a British geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. Bird has spent much of his academic career in Edinburgh, from receiving his PhD in 1970 to working at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and later serving as director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology. His research focuses on understanding DNA methylation and CpG islands, and their role in diseases such as Rett syndrome."
tagline: "Geneticist and Professor at the University of Edinburgh"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump