# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hidesaburo-hanafusa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:03:46.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hidesaburo-hanafusa"
name: "Hidesaburō Hanafusa"
slug: "hidesaburo-hanafusa"
description: "Hidesaburo Hanafusa  was a Japanese virologist. He shared the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Harold E. Varmus and J. Michael Bishop for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome."
tagline: "Japanese virologist (1929-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hidesaburo_Hanafusa_cropped_Hidesaburo_Hanafusa_20001212.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-12-01"
deathDate: "2009-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.03
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.346941333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E6%88%BF%E7%A7%80%E4%B8%89%E9%83%8E"
    title: "花房秀三郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidesaburo_Hanafusa"
    title: "Hidesaburo Hanafusa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidesabur%C5%8D_Hanafusa"
    title: "Hidesaburō Hanafusa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidesaburo_Hanafusa"
    title: "Hidesaburo Hanafusa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidesabur%C5%8D_Hanafusa"
    title: "Hidesaburō Hanafusa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidesabur%C5%8D_Hanafusa"
    title: "Hidesaburō Hanafusa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E6%88%BF%E7%A7%80%E4%B8%89%E9%83%8E"
    title: "花房秀三郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1617374"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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