# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornelia-bargmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:28:39.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cornelia-bargmann"
name: "Cornelia Bargmann"
slug: "cornelia-bargmann"
description: "Cornelia Isabella \"Cori\" Bargmann is an American neurobiologist. She is known for her work on the genetic and neural circuit mechanisms of behavior using C. elegans, particularly the mechanisms of olfaction in the worm. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and had been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSF and then Rockefeller University from 1995 to 2016. She was the Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative from 2016 to 2022. In 2012 she was awarded the $1 million Kavli Prize, and in 2013 the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences."
tagline: "American neurobiologist"
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birthDate: "1961-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump