# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-c-cantley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:15:49.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-c-cantley"
name: "Lewis C. Cantley"
slug: "lewis-c-cantley"
description: "Lewis Clayton Cantley is an American cell biologist and biochemist who has made significant advances to the understanding of cancer metabolism. Among his most notable contributions are the discovery and study of the enzyme PI-3-kinase, now known to be important to understanding cancer and diabetes mellitus. He was Meyer Director and Professor of Cancer Biology at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He is a professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Director of Cancer Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2016, he was elected Chairman of the Board for the Hope Funds for Cancer Research."
tagline: "American biochemist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.06060606060606
  historical:           8.952089333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "刘易斯·坎特利"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لويس كانتلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لوئیس کانتی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Льюіс Кэнтлі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_C._Cantley"
    title: "Lewis C. Cantley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_C._Cantley"
    title: "Lewis C. Cantley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ルイス・カントレー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Cantley"
    title: "Lewis Cantley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кэнтли, Льюис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump