# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alysson-muotri
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:39.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alysson-muotri"
name: "Alysson Muotri"
slug: "alysson-muotri"
description: "Alysson Renato Muotri is a Brazilian geneticist and developmental biologist, and a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, where he directs the UCSD Stem-Cell Program. His research focuses on the evolutionary genetics and neuroscience of brain development, using human and \"Neanderthalized\" brain organoids developed from stem cells. He is one of the most scientifically impactful Brazilian researchers in the world."
tagline: "Brazilian biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Alysson_Muotri_in_2023_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           39.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.011484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Muotri"
    handle:    "Muotri"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://muotri.ucsd.edu"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alysson_Muotri"
    title: "Alysson Muotri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alysson_Muotri"
    title: "Alysson Muotri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%82%AA%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA"
    title: "アリソン・ムオトリ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alysson_Muotri"
    title: "Alysson Muotri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Муотри, Алиссон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16489352"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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