# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sean-b-carroll
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:21:36.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sean-b-carroll"
name: "Sean B. Carroll"
slug: "sean-b-carroll"
description: "Sean Brendan Carroll is an American evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His studies focus on the evolution of cis-regulatory elements in the regulation of gene expression in the context of biological development, using Drosophila as a model system. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society (2007), of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for Advancement of Science. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator."
tagline: "American biologist (born 1960)"
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birthDate: "1960-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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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