# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-agus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:07:34.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-agus"
name: "David Agus"
slug: "david-agus"
description: "David B. Agus is an American physician and author specializing in advanced cancer. He serves as professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering, as well as the founding director and CEO of the Ellison Medical Institute. He is also the cofounder of several personalized medicine companies and a contributor to CBS News on health topics."
tagline: "American physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_B._Agus_World_Economic_Forum_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1965-01-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.208105333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DavidAgus"
    handle:    "DavidAgus"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2198056/"
    handle:    "nm2198056"
sources:
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    title: "ഡേവിഡ് ബി. ആഗസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد آجوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد آجوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Agus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Agus"
    title: "David Agus"
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    title: "דוד איגוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "David Agus"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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