# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuan-cheng-fung
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:04:21.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuan-cheng-fung"
name: "Yuan-Cheng Fung"
slug: "yuan-cheng-fung"
description: "Yuan-Cheng \"Bert\" Fung was a Chinese-American bioengineer and writer. He is regarded as a founding figure of bioengineering, tissue engineering, and the \"Founder of Modern Biomechanics\"."
tagline: "American bio-engineer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Yuan-Cheng_Fung.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-09-15"
deathDate: "2019-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.29
  momentum:             5.377358490566038
  historical:           5.685422666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "یوان چنگ فونگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan-Cheng_Fung"
    title: "Yuan-Cheng Fung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan-Cheng_Fung"
    title: "Yuan-Cheng Fung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%AF%E5%85%83%E6%A1%A2"
    title: "冯元桢"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan-Cheng_Fung"
    title: "Yuan-Cheng Fung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan-Cheng_Fung"
    title: "Yuan-Cheng Fung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8060008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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