# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ethel-michele-de-villiers
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:15:12.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ethel-michele-de-villiers"
name: "Ethel-Michele de Villiers"
slug: "ethel-michele-de-villiers"
description: "Ethel-Michele is a South African virologist and cancer researcher associated with the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. Her research focuses on the biology of human papillomavirus (HPV), including the characterization of HPV types associated with cervical cancer."
tagline: "South African virologist, professor and cancer researcher in Germany (1947 - )"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Keynote_speakers_at_4th_Swiss_Symposium_in_Point-of-Care_Diagnostics.png/330px-Keynote_speakers_at_4th_Swiss_Symposium_in_Point-of-Care_Diagnostics.png"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.72
  momentum:             2.625
  historical:           3.073938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel-Michele_de_Villiers"
    title: "Ethel-Michele de Villiers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel-Michele_de_Villiers"
    title: "Ethel-Michele de Villiers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel-Michele_de_Villiers"
    title: "Ethel-Michele de Villiers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59504673"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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