# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-sheetz
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:49:00.814Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-sheetz"
name: "Michael Sheetz"
slug: "michael-sheetz"
description: "Michael Patrick Sheetz was a cell biologist, a pioneer of mechanobiology and biomechanics, and a key contributor to the discovery of kinesin. He served as the Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, the department of biochemistry and molecular biology. He was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology at Columbia University, former distinguished professor and the founding director of the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore, and former professor at Washington University in St. Louis and chairman at Duke University."
tagline: "American biochemist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "2000"
deathDate: "2025-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.01
  momentum:             15.94449555351119
  historical:           5.795150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheetz"
    title: "Michael Sheetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheetz"
    title: "Michael Sheetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheetz"
    title: "Michael Sheetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%85%8B%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%B8%8C%E8%8C%A8"
    title: "迈克尔·希茨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "മൈക്കൽ പാട്രിക് ഷീറ്റ്സ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheetz"
    title: "Michael Sheetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1929376"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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