# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-jaenisch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:28.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-jaenisch"
name: "Rudolf Jaenisch"
slug: "rudolf-jaenisch"
description: "Rudolf Jaenisch is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal's genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating genetically modified mice to study cancer, epigenetic reprogramming and neurological diseases."
tagline: "German geneticist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jaenisch_2003_by_Sam_Ogden.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.69129066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://wi.mit.edu/people/faculty/jaenisch"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump