# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-wainberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:22:48.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-wainberg"
name: "Mark Wainberg"
slug: "mark-wainberg"
description: "Mark Arnold Wainberg, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His laboratory primarily studies HIV reverse transcriptase, the molecular basis for drug resistance, and gene therapy. He received a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1966, a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1972, and did his post-doctoral research at Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University."
tagline: "Canadian AIDS researcher (1945–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-04-21"
deathDate: "2017-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.21
  momentum:             5.157894736842105
  historical:           6.338517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mark Wainberg"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "مارك وينبرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wainberg"
    title: "Mark Wainberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wainberg"
    title: "Mark Wainberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wainberg"
    title: "Mark Wainberg"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wainberg"
    title: "Mark Wainberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wainberg"
    title: "Mark Wainberg"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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