# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saba-valadkhan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:29.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saba-valadkhan"
name: "Saba Valadkhan"
slug: "saba-valadkhan"
description: "Saba Valadkhan is an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2005, she was awarded the GE / Science Young Scientist Award for her breakthrough in understanding the mechanism of spliceosomes - \"akin to finding the Holy Grail of the splicing catalysis field\" - a critical area of research, given that \"20 percent or 30 percent of all human genetic diseases are caused by mistakes that the spliceosome makes\"."
tagline: "Iranian American biomedical scientist"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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