# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-juan-martinez-mojica
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:25:35.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-juan-martinez-mojica"
name: "Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica"
slug: "francisco-juan-martinez-mojica"
description: "Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica is a Spanish molecular biologist and microbiologist at the University of Alicante in Spain. He is known for his discovery of repetitive, functional DNA sequences in bacteria which he named CRISPR. These were later developed into the first widespread genome editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9."
tagline: "Microbiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FCMM_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.300362666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Francisco Mojica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانسيسكو موهيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Francesc Joan Martínez Mojica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mojica"
    title: "Francisco Mojica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mojica"
    title: "Francisco Mojica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Juan_Mart%C3%ADnez_Mojica"
    title: "Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%92%E3%82%AB"
    title: "フランシスコ・モヒカ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mojica"
    title: "Francisco Mojica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Мохика, Франсиско"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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