# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yang-dan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:55:07.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yang-dan"
name: "Yang Dan"
slug: "yang-dan"
description: "Dan Yang is a Chinese-American neuroscientist. She is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. She is a past recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Beckman Young Investigator Award, and Society for Neuroscience Research Awards for Innovation in Neuroscience. Recognized for her research on the neural circuits that control behavior, she was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018."
tagline: "Chinese-American neuroscientist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.19005818107584
  historical:           5.290102666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Yang Dan"
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    title: "ইয়াং ডেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Dan_(neuroscientist)"
    title: "Yang Dan (neuroscientist)"
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    title: "ಯಾಂಗ್ ಡ್ಯಾನ್"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump