# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-tjian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:02:19.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-tjian"
name: "Robert Tjian"
slug: "robert-tjian"
description: "Robert Tse-Nan Tjian is a Hong Kong-born American biochemist best known for his work on eukaryotic transcription. He is currently professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). On April 1, 2009, Tjian became the President of HHMI. On August 4, 2015, he announced that he would step down as President at the end of 2016."
tagline: "American biochemist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.552521333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "錢澤南"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت تشيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رابرت تجیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Tjian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tjian"
    title: "Robert Tjian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tjian"
    title: "Robert Tjian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Цянь, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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