# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zena-werb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:43:10.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zena-werb"
name: "Zena Werb"
slug: "zena-werb"
description: "Zena Werb was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. She was also the co-leader of the Cancer, Immunity, and Microenvironment Program at the Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Sabre-Sandler Asthma Basic Research Center at UCSF. Her research focused on features of the microenvironment surrounding cells, with particular interest in the extracellular matrix and the role of its protease enzymes in cell signaling."
tagline: "German-born cell biologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945"
deathDate: "2020-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.20396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%2C_%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Верб, Зена"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8"
    title: "زينا ويرب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zena_Werb"
    title: "Zena Werb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zena_Werb"
    title: "Zena Werb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zena_Werb"
    title: "Zena Werb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91"
    title: "זנה וורב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B6%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D5%8E%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A2"
    title: "Զենա Վերբ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zena_Werb"
    title: "Zena Werb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20642782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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