# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ashani-weeraratna
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:40:39.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ashani-weeraratna"
name: "Ashani Weeraratna"
slug: "ashani-weeraratna"
description: "Ashani Tanuja Weeraratna is a Sri Lanka-born American cancer researcher whose findings are contributing to the scientific understanding of melanoma tumors. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of cancer biology and the E.V. McCollum Professor and chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Weeraratna is a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board, which advises and assists the director of the National Cancer Institute on the activities of the national cancer program."
tagline: "American cancer researcher"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.604824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "أشاني ويراراتنا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ashani Weeraratna"
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    title: "Ashana Weeraratna"
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    title: "Ashani Weeraratna"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump