# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marc-kirschner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:04.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marc-kirschner"
name: "Marc Kirschner"
slug: "marc-kirschner"
description: "Marc Wallace Kirschner is an American cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is known for major discoveries in cell and developmental biology related to the dynamics and function of the cytoskeleton, the regulation of the cell cycle, and the process of signaling in embryos, as well as the evolution of the vertebrate body plan. He is a leader in applying mathematical approaches to biology. He is the John Franklin Enders University Professor at Harvard University. In 1989 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society."
tagline: "American biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plos_kirschner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-02-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.080850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.kirschnerlab.org/marc-kirschner"
sources:
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    title: "Marc Kirschner"
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    title: "مارك كيرشنر (استاذ جامعة من امريكا)"
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    title: "مارک کیشنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kirschner"
    title: "Marc Kirschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kirschner"
    title: "Marc Kirschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kirschner"
    title: "Marc Kirschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "مارک کیشنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kirschner"
    title: "Marc Kirschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kirschner"
    title: "Marc Kirschner"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump