# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-sadelain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:47:17.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-sadelain"
name: "Michel Sadelain"
slug: "michel-sadelain"
description: "Michel W. Sadelain is a genetic engineer and cell therapist at Columbia University New York, New York. He is the Director of the Columbia Initiative in Cell Engineering and Therapy (CICET). Sadelain also serves as the Director of Columbia University Irving Medical Center's Cancer Cell Therapy Initiative in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. Sadelain was previously the Steve and Barbara Friedman Chair, founding director of the Center for Cell Engineering, and the head of the Gene Transfer and Gene Expression Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is best known for his major contributions to T cell engineering and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy, an immunotherapy based on the genetic engineering of a patient's own T cells to treat cancer. Sadelain also pioneered the use of lentiviral vectors to treat severe hemoglobinopathies such as β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Sadelain is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of France and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences."
tagline: "American immunologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Sadelain.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.61
  momentum:             0.5524861878453039
  historical:           6.560837333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Саделайн, Мишель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميشيل سادلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মিশেল সাদলাঁ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sadelain"
    title: "Michel Sadelain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sadelain"
    title: "Michel Sadelain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sadelain"
    title: "Michel Sadelain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%87%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ミシェル・サデラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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