# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-s-moore
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:11:06.855Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-s-moore"
name: "Patrick S. Moore"
slug: "patrick-s-moore"
description: "Patrick S. Moore is an Irish and American virologist and epidemiologist who co-discovered together with his wife, Yuan Chang, two different human viruses causing the AIDS-related cancer Kaposi's sarcoma and the skin cancer Merkel cell carcinoma. Moore and Chang have discovered two of the seven known human viruses causing cancer. The couple met while in medical school together and were married in 1989 while they pursued fellowships at different universities."
tagline: "American virologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrick_S._Moore_2017-01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.16
  momentum:             0.2985074626865671
  historical:           6.538301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%A1._%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80"
    title: "Патрік С. Мур"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A5%D8%B3._%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "باتريك إس. مور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "پاتریک اس. مور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_S._Moore"
    title: "Patrick S. Moore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_S._Moore"
    title: "Patrick S. Moore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_S._Moore"
    title: "Patrick S. Moore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%A1."
    title: "Мур, Патрик С."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281690"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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