# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-p-lane
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:00.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-p-lane"
name: "David P. Lane"
slug: "david-p-lane"
description: "Sir David Philip Lane is a British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is currently working in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute and is Chairman of Chugai Pharmabody. He is best known for the discovery of p53, one of the most important tumour suppressor genes."
tagline: "British oncologist (1952-)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             1.433691756272401
  historical:           5.878150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://ki.se/en/people/davlan"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lane_(biologist)"
    title: "David Lane (biologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8)"
    title: "ديفيد لين (طبيب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Lane"
    title: "David P. Lane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%8D%AB%C2%B7P%C2%B7%E8%8E%B1%E6%81%A9"
    title: "大卫·P·莱恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Philip_Lane"
    title: "David Philip Lane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Lane"
    title: "David P. Lane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q909289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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