# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-summerlin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:42:44.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-summerlin"
name: "William Summerlin"
slug: "william-summerlin"
description: "William T. Summerlin is a dermatologist and medical researcher who engaged in scientific fraud involving his claims of successful skin transplantation without immunosuppression. Scientists were unable to replicate Summerlin's results, which drew scrutiny. A lab assistant noticed that one of the white lab mice that was supposed to have a dark patch of skin successfully grafted onto it had fur that was colored with ink from a felt-tip pen. An investigation of Summerlin's research ultimately led to the termination of his employment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center."
tagline: "American medical researcher"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476314666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Summerlin"
    title: "William Summerlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "وليام سمرلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Summerlin"
    title: "William Summerlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Summerlin"
    title: "William Summerlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Summerlin"
    title: "William Summerlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ウィリアム・サマーリン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2483155"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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