# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elisa-izaurralde
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:26:13.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elisa-izaurralde"
name: "Elisa Izaurralde"
slug: "elisa-izaurralde"
description: "Elisa Izaurralde was an Uruguayan biochemist and molecular biologist. She served as Director and Scientific Member of the Department of Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen from 2005 until her death in 2018. In 2008, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, shared with Elena Conti, for \"fundamental new insights into intracellular RNA transport and RNA metabolism\". Together with Conti, she helped characterize proteins important for exporting mRNA out of the nucleus and later in her career she helped elucidate mechanisms of mRNA silencing, translational repression, and mRNA decay."
tagline: "Uruguayan biochemist and molecular biologist"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1959-09-20"
deathDate: "2018-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Elisa Izaurralde"
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    title: "الیزا ایزورالد"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump