# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-blau
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:58:35.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-blau"
name: "Helen Blau"
slug: "helen-blau"
description: "Helen Blau is a cell biologist and stem cell researcher famous for her work on muscle diseases, regeneration and aging. She is the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor and the Director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology at Stanford University. Blau is known for overturning the prevailing view that once a cell assumes a certain specialty in the body — or differentiated state —such as a skin or liver cell, it cannot be changed. Her research established that the fate of mammalian cells can be altered. Her finding that specialized cells can be triggered to turn on genetic programs characteristic of other differentiated states provided early evidence that mammalian cellular reprogramming was possible and opened the door to the use of reprogramming in stem cell biology. Her work set the stage for the development of induced pluripotent stem cells and associated stem cell therapies."
tagline: "British-American biochemist, stem cell researcher, and university teacher (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_Blau_photo_by_Amparo_Garrido.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.683946666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://web.stanford.edu/group/blau/"
sources:
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    title: "Блау, Хелен"
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    title: "هيلين بلاو"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Blau"
    title: "Helen Blau"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Blau"
    title: "Helen Blau"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Margaret_Blau"
    title: "Helen Margaret Blau"
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    title: "Helen Blau"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump