# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-boyden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:14:20.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-boyden"
name: "Edward Boyden"
slug: "edward-boyden"
description: "Edward S. Boyden is an American neuroscientist and entrepreneur at MIT. He is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, and a full member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is recognized for his work on optogenetics and expansion microscopy. Boyden joined the MIT faculty in 2007, and continues to develop new optogenetic tools as well as other technologies for the manipulation and analysis of brain structure and activity. He received the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences."
tagline: "American neuroscientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Boyden_World_Economic_Forum_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1979-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump