# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-danchakoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:30:35.146Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-danchakoff"
name: "Vera Danchakoff"
slug: "vera-danchakoff"
description: "Vera Mikhaĭlovna Danchakoff was an anatomist, cell biologist and embryologist from the Russian Empire. In 1908 she was the first woman in the Russian Empire to be appointed as a professor and she became a pioneer in stem cell research. She emigrated to the United States in 1915 where she was a leading exponent of the idea that all types of blood cell develop from a single type of cell. She has sometimes been called \"the mother of stem cells\". She later returned to Europe to continue with her research."
tagline: "Russian anatomist, cell biologist and embryologist (1879–1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vera_Danchakoff%2C_beginning_of_20_century.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1879-03-21"
deathDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.338913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Данчакова, Вера Михайловна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Danchakoff"
    title: "Vera Danchakoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Danchakoff"
    title: "Vera Danchakoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Danchakoff"
    title: "Vera Danchakoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Danchakoff"
    title: "Vera Danchakoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Danchakoff"
    title: "Vera Danchakoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Danchakoff"
    title: "Vera Danchakoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26270056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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