# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shizuo-akira
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:22:03.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shizuo-akira"
name: "Shizuo Akira"
slug: "shizuo-akira"
description: "Shizuo Akira  is a professor at the Department of Host Defense, Osaka University, Japan. He has made ground-breaking discoveries in the field of immunology, most significantly in the area of innate host defense mechanisms."
tagline: "Japanese immunologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shizuo_Akira_cropped_Shizuo_Akira_20141212.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.573941333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://hostdefense.ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/"
sources:
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    title: "審良靜男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88_%D8%A3%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "شيزو أكيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "شيزو اكيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuo_Akira"
    title: "Shizuo Akira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuo_Akira"
    title: "Shizuo Akira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%A9%E8%89%AF%E9%9D%99%E7%94%B7"
    title: "審良静男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BE"
    title: "Акира, Сидзуо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2279629"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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