# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pamela-j-bjorkman
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:37:38.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pamela-j-bjorkman"
name: "Pamela J. Bjorkman"
slug: "pamela-j-bjorkman"
description: "Pamela Jane Bjorkman NAS, AAAS is an American biochemist and molecular biologist. She is the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Her research centers on the study of the three-dimensional structures of proteins related to class I MHC, or major histocompatibility complex, proteins of the immune system, and proteins involved in the immune responses to viruses. Bjorkman's goal is to improve current therapeutic applications. Bjorkman is most well known as a pioneer in the field of structural biology."
tagline: "American biochemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plos_bjorkman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             8.240369302719374
  historical:           13.28668266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump