# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvyn-greaves
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:45.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvyn-greaves"
name: "Melvyn Greaves"
slug: "melvyn-greaves"
description: "Sir Melvyn Francis Greaves is a British cancer biologist, and Professor of Cell Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London. He is noted for his research into childhood leukaemia and the roles of evolution in cancer, including important discoveries in the genetics and molecular biology underpinning leukaemia."
tagline: "Biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Melvyn_Greaves.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.875162666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/professor-mel-greaves"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_Greaves"
    title: "Melvyn Greaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "ملفن غريفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Greaves"
    title: "Melvin Greaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E5%B0%94%E6%96%87%C2%B7%E6%A0%BC%E9%87%8C%E5%A4%AB%E6%96%AF"
    title: "梅尔文·格里夫斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_Greaves"
    title: "Melvyn Greaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_Greaves"
    title: "Melvyn Greaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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