# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-gage
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:34:35.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-gage"
name: "Fred Gage"
slug: "fred-gage"
description: "Fred \"Rusty\" Gage is an American geneticist known for his discovery of stem cells in the adult human brain. Gage is a former president (2018–2023) of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he holds the Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disease and works in the Laboratory of Genetics."
tagline: "American geneticist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Gage_in_2026_02_(3x4_cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             3.766257272139625
  historical:           7.618036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E9%9B%B7%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E7%9B%96%E5%A5%87"
    title: "弗雷德·盖奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "فرد كيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_H._Gage"
    title: "Fred H. Gage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gage"
    title: "Fred Gage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gage"
    title: "Fred Gage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8"
    title: "フレッド・ゲージ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gage"
    title: "Fred Gage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Harrison_Gage"
    title: "Fred Harrison Gage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q895547"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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