# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-hopkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:04:00.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-hopkins"
name: "Nancy Hopkins"
slug: "nancy-hopkins"
description: "Nancy Hopkins is an American molecular biologist, currently the Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is known for her research identifying genes required for zebrafish development, and for her earlier research on gene expression in the bacterial virus lambda, and on mouse RNA tumor viruses. She is also known for her work promoting equality of opportunity for women scientists in academia."
tagline: "American molecular biologist (1943- )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nancy_Hopkins_in_2023_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://biology.mit.edu/profile/nancy-hopkins/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump