# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cynthia-kenyon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:55:57.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cynthia-kenyon"
name: "Cynthia Kenyon"
slug: "cynthia-kenyon"
description: "Cynthia Jane Kenyon is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. She is the vice president of aging research at Calico Research Labs, and emeritus professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)."
tagline: "US molecular biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cyntia_Kenyon_01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1954-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5590062111801242
  historical:           11.825092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump