# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vy-dong
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:54.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vy-dong"
name: "Vy Dong"
slug: "vy-dong"
description: "Vy Maria Dong is a Vietnamese-American Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Dong works on enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis. She received the Royal Society of Chemistry's Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award in 2020, the American Chemical Society's Elias James Corey Award in 2019, and the UCI's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018."
tagline: "American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vy_Dong_lecture_at_UBC.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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    title: "وی ماریا ڈونگ"
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    title: "ভি মারিয়া ডং"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump