# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meena-upadhyaya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:00:28.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meena-upadhyaya"
name: "Meena Upadhyaya"
slug: "meena-upadhyaya"
description: "Dame Meena Upadhyaya is an Indian-born Welsh medical geneticist and a professor emerita at Cardiff University. Her research has focused on the genes that cause various genetic disorders, in particular neurofibromatosis type I and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy."
tagline: "Indian-born Welsh medical geneticist"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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