# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-vousden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:11:35.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-vousden"
name: "Karen Vousden"
slug: "karen-vousden"
description: "Karen Heather Vousden is a British medical researcher. She is known for her work on the tumour suppressor protein, p53, and in particular her discovery of the important regulatory role of Mdm2, an attractive target for anti-cancer agents. From 2003 to 2016, she was the director of the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute in Glasgow, UK, moving back to London in 2016 to take up the role of Chief Scientist at CRUK and Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute."
tagline: "British medical researcher"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.870967741935483
  historical:           7.872318666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Вусден, Карен"
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    title: "Karen Vousden"
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    title: "Karen Vousden"
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    title: "Karen Vousden"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Vousden"
    title: "Karen Vousden"
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    title: "Karen Vousden"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump