# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jiankui-he
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:46:53.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jiankui-he"
name: "Jiankui He"
slug: "jiankui-he"
description: "He Jiankui  is a Chinese biophysicist known for his controversial first use of genome editing in humans in 2018. He was listed as one of Time's 100 most influential people of 2019, in the section \"Pioneers\". At the same time, he was widely condemned as a mad scientist."
tagline: "Chinese biophysicist (1984-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/He_Jiankui_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1984"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.11048794167134
  historical:           21.970528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  43
  category: 63
totalFollowers: 4520
platforms:
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    handle:    "Jiankui_He"
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    handle:    "he.jiankui.9"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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