# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kari-alitalo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:31:26.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kari-alitalo"
name: "Kari Alitalo"
slug: "kari-alitalo"
description: "Kari Kustaa Alitalo is a Finnish MD and a medical researcher. He is a foreign associated member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US. He became famous for his discoveries of several receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and the first growth factor capable of inducing lymphangiogenesis: vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C). In the years 1996–2007 he was Europe's second most cited author in the field of cell biology. Alitalo is currently serving as an Academy Professor for the Academy of Finland."
tagline: "Finnish research professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kari_K._Alitalo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470086666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Alitalo"
    title: "Kari Alitalo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "كارى اليتالو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Alitalo"
    title: "Kari Alitalo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Alitalo"
    title: "Kari Alitalo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Alitalo"
    title: "Kari Alitalo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B0"
    title: "Алитало, Кари Кустаа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6370341"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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