# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-frank-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:32:17.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-frank-bennett"
name: "C. Frank Bennett"
slug: "c-frank-bennett"
description: "C. Frank Bennett is an American pharmacologist. Bennett is currently the Senior Vice President of Research and Neurology Franchise Leader at Ionis Pharmaceuticals. He is a 2019 Breakthrough Prize winner in Life Sciences, which he shared with his collaborator Adrian R. Krainer for the development of an effective antisense oligonucleotide therapy for children with the neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy."
tagline: "American pharmacologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C._Frank_Bennett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Frank_Bennett"
    title: "C. Frank Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "س. فرانك بينيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Frank_Bennett"
    title: "C. Frank Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Frank_Bennett"
    title: "C. Frank Bennett"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Frank_Bennett"
    title: "C. Frank Bennett"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Frank_Bennett"
    title: "C. Frank Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57446459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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