# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharmila-bhattacharya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:30.080Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/sharmila-bhattacharya"
name: "Sharmila Bhattacharya"
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description: "Sharmila Bhattacharya is an Indian-American scientist who works as the chief scientist for astrobionics and head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center. She is the subject matter expert of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the principal investigator for Biomodel Performance Laboratory of Space Biosciences Division of NASA Ames Research Center. She was part of a project which sent fruit flies into space to study human illnesses and to study the effects of space radiation, both which will help space explorers. She has received the Ames Honor Award the successful launch of the MVP-Fly-01 experiment, 2018, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 2018, etc."
tagline: "Indian-American scientist"
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birthDate: "1964-03-24"
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