# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lydia-villa-komaroff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:12.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lydia-villa-komaroff"
name: "Lydia Villa-Komaroff"
slug: "lydia-villa-komaroff"
description: "Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a molecular and cellular biologist who has been an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a business woman. She was the third Mexican-American woman in the United States to receive a doctorate degree in the sciences (1975) and is a co-founding member of The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Her most notable discovery was in 1978 during her post-doctoral research, when she was part of a team that discovered how bacterial cells could be used to generate insulin."
tagline: "Mexican American cellular biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lydia_Villa-Komaroff-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1947-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.141901333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Lydia Villa-Komaroff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಲಿಡಿಯಾ ವಿಲ್ಲಾ-ಕೊಮಾರೊಫ್"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump