# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-m-sabatini
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:08:09.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-m-sabatini"
name: "David M. Sabatini"
slug: "david-m-sabatini"
description: "David M. Sabatini is an American scientist and a former professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2021, he was a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He was also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2008 to 2021 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. He is known for his contributions in the areas of cell signaling and cancer metabolism, most notably the co-discovery of mTOR."
tagline: "Biologist who discovered mTOR"
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country:
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birthDate: "1968-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump