# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynne-e-maquat
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:42:18.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynne-e-maquat"
name: "Lynne E. Maquat"
slug: "lynne-e-maquat"
description: "Lynne Elizabeth Maquat is an American biochemist and molecular biologist whose research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of human disease. She is known for her work in describing the process of nonsense-mediated decay. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. She currently holds the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics, pediatrics and oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center."
tagline: "American biochemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maquat-lab.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.60522
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Макуат, Линн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лін Макуат"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lynne Maquat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_E._Maquat"
    title: "Lynne E. Maquat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_E._Maquat"
    title: "Lynne E. Maquat"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Elizabeth_Maquat"
    title: "Lynne Elizabeth Maquat"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Maquat"
    title: "Lynne Maquat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "לין אליזבת מקוייט"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump