# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathy-niakan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:22:44.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathy-niakan"
name: "Kathy Niakan"
slug: "kathy-niakan"
description: "Kathy Niakan is a developmental biologist, working in human developmental and stem cell biology. In 2016 she became the first scientist in the world to gain regulatory approval to edit the genomes of human embryos for research."
tagline: "Developmental biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kathy_Niakan_on_Charles_Wright_Academy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.52
  momentum:             0.8029197080291971
  historical:           6.338661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Niakan"
    title: "Kathy Niakan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کتی نیاکان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Niakan"
    title: "Kathy Niakan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Niakan"
    title: "Kathy Niakan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%AF%E8%A5%BF%C2%B7%E5%B0%BC%E4%BA%9A%E5%9D%8E"
    title: "凯西·尼亚坎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23303278"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump