# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josep-baselga
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:44:19.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josep-baselga"
name: "Josep Baselga"
slug: "josep-baselga"
description: "Josep Baselga i Torres, known in Spanish as José Baselga, was a Spanish medical oncologist and researcher focused on the development of novel molecular targeted agents, with a special emphasis in breast cancer. Through his career he was associated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, and the Massachusetts General Hospital in their hematology and oncology divisions. He led the development of the breast cancer treatment Herceptin, a monoclonal antibody, that targets the HER2 protein, which is impacted in aggressive breast cancers."
tagline: "Spanish oncologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jos%C3%A9_Baselga_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-07-03"
deathDate: "2021-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.43
  momentum:             0.1442307692307692
  historical:           6.638268
  currentAttention:     0.8012820512820513
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Baselga"
    title: "Josep Baselga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "جوزيب باسيلجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Baselga_i_Torres"
    title: "Josep Baselga i Torres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Baselga"
    title: "José Baselga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Baselga"
    title: "Josep Baselga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Baselga"
    title: "José Baselga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Baselga"
    title: "José Baselga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Baselga"
    title: "José Baselga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6279267"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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