# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rana-dajani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:27:06.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rana-dajani"
name: "Rana Dajani"
slug: "rana-dajani"
description: "Rana Dajani is a Jordanian molecular biologist and tenured professor of biology and biotechnology at Hashemite University. She earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Iowa. Dajani is an expert on genetics of Circassian and Chechen populations in Jordan, also on conducting genome-wide association studies on diabetes and cancer on stem cells. Her work in stem cell research initiated the development of the Stem Cell Research Ethics Law and all regulations in Jordan. She is an advocate for the biological evolution theory in relation to the religion of Islam, and believes strongly in the education and empowerment of women, being a member of the United Nations Women Jordan Advisory Council. She is the recipient of the Jordan's Order of Al Hussein for Distinguished Contributions of the Second Class."
tagline: "Jordanian biologist, and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rana_Dajani.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump