# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erkki-ruoslahti
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:57:35.868Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erkki-ruoslahti"
name: "Erkki Ruoslahti"
slug: "erkki-ruoslahti"
description: "Erkki Ruoslahti is a Finnish and American cancer researcher. He is a distinguished professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. He moved from Finland to the United States in 1976, and he has received U.S. citizenship."
tagline: "Finnish American cancer researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erkki_Ruoslahti.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: "1940-02-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.873614666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "埃尔基·罗斯拉赫蒂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اركى روسلاهتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Ruoslahti"
    title: "Erkki Ruoslahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Ruoslahti"
    title: "Erkki Ruoslahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Ruoslahti"
    title: "Erkki Ruoslahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Ruoslahti"
    title: "Erkki Ruoslahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Ruoslahti"
    title: "Erkki Ruoslahti"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Ruoslahti"
    title: "Erkki Ruoslahti"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump