Howard Yuan-Hao Chang (born 1972) is a Taiwan-born American physician-scientist. He is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics and of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine[1] and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.[2]

Biography

Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan.[3] He studied biochemistry at Harvard University and completed a doctorate in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and medical degree at Harvard Medical School as part of the Harvard-MIT physician scientist training program.[4] He was awarded the 2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology for "discoveries of long noncoding RNAs and technologies unveiling the noncoding genome."[5] In 2024 he received the King Faisal Prize in Biology.[6]

He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2020.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Howard Y. Chang, MD PhD". Stanford University Neurosciences Institute.
  2. ^ "Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Howard Y. Chang". Stanford University. Archived from the original on December 5, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  4. ^ "Howard Y. Chang, MD PhD". Stanford University. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  5. ^ "2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
  6. ^ King Faisal Prize 2024
  7. ^ "Howard Y. Chang". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
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