# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuan-chang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:22:05.141Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuan-chang"
name: "Yuan Chang"
slug: "yuan-chang"
description: "Yuan Chang is a Taiwanese-born American virologist and pathologist who co-discovered together with her husband, Patrick S. Moore, the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Merkel cell polyomavirus, two of the seven known human oncoviruses."
tagline: "American virologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuan_Chang_2017-01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1959-11-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.34
  momentum:             0.5357142857142858
  historical:           8.276674666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%A0%E8%BF%9C_(%E7%97%85%E7%90%86%E5%AD%A6%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "张远 (病理学家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "يوان تشانغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Chang"
    title: "Yuan Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Chang"
    title: "Yuan Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Chang"
    title: "Yuan Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Chang"
    title: "Yuan Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ヤン・チャン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Chang"
    title: "Yuan Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Юань Чанг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438541"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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