# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virginia-man-yee-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:36:57.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virginia-man-yee-lee"
name: "Virginia Man-Yee Lee"
slug: "virginia-man-yee-lee"
description: "Virginia Man-Yee Lee is a Chinese-born American biochemist and neuroscientist who specializes in the research of Alzheimer's disease. She is the current John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer's Research at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and the director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and co-director of the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Drug Discovery Program at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences."
tagline: "Professor in Alzheimer’s Research"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Virginia_M.-Y._Lee.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "וירג'יניה מן-יי לי"
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    title: "വിർജീനിയ മാൻ-യീ ലീ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump