PHYSICIAN

Drew Weissman

1959 - Today

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Drew Weissman (born September 7, 1959) is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Weissman's work underlies the development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Drew Weissman has received more than 566,027 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Drew Weissman is the 288th most popular physician, the 2,506th most popular biography from United States and the 33rd most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Drew Weissman ranks 288 out of 726. Before him are Thomas Addison, Bronisława Dłuska, Guillaume Dupuytren, Podalirius, Vincenz Priessnitz, and Henry Gray. After him are Ennio Antonelli, Franciscus Donders, Caesarius of Nazianzus, Johann Conrad Dippel, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, and Gerard van Swieten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Drew Weissman ranks 85. Before him are Xiomara Castro, Richie Sambora, Guy Parmelin, Boyko Borisov, Filipe Nyusi, and Tobias Moretti. After him are Sean Young, Takaaki Kajita, Donna Murphy, Luis Fernández, Yasmina Reza, and Alan Wilder.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Drew Weissman ranks 2,506 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerry Fodor (1935), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Thomas R. Marshall (1854), James Baker (1930), Steve Fossett (1944), and Ernest Guiraud (1837). After him are Sheldon Adelson (1933), Julie Newmar (1933), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Edward Witten (1951), Matt Cameron (1962), and John McTiernan (1951).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Drew Weissman ranks 33. Before him are Robert Lefkowitz (1943), John O'Keefe (1939), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Richard Axel (1946), and Michael DeBakey (1908). After him are Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Jack Kevorkian (1928), William Bates (1860), Anthony Fauci (1940), and Mehmet Oz (1960).

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