# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/takashi-sugimura
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:54:58.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/takashi-sugimura"
name: "Takashi Sugimura"
slug: "takashi-sugimura"
description: "Takashi Sugimura  was a Japanese biochemist, famous for research on chemical carcinogens. He received the Japan Prize for the contribution to establishment of fundamental concept on causes of cancer. He was elected as President of the Japan Academy on October 15, 2013, serving till 2016 and was followed by Hiroshi Shiono."
tagline: "Japanese biochemist (1926–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Takashi_Sugimura_cropped_1_Takashi_Sugimura_201310.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-04-20"
deathDate: "2020-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.87
  momentum:             3.962264150943396
  historical:           6.142945333333333
  currentAttention:     22.0125786163522
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E6%9D%91%E9%9A%86"
    title: "杉村隆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "تاكاشى سوجيمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Sugimura"
    title: "Takashi Sugimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Sugimura"
    title: "Takashi Sugimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Sugimura"
    title: "Takashi Sugimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E6%9D%91%E9%9A%86"
    title: "杉村隆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Sugimura"
    title: "Takashi Sugimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2389239"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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