Howard Y. Chang
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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
[edit]Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, into a family of physicians.[3] His father, Chang Chau-hsiung, was a Taiwanese physician and politician.[4] 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".[5] He was awarded the 2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology for "discoveries of long noncoding RNAs and technologies unveiling the noncoding genome."[6] In 2024 he received the King Faisal Prize in Biology[7] and also in 2024 the Albany Medical Center Prize jointly with Adrian R. Krainer and Lynne E. Maquat.[8]
He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2020.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Howard Y. Chang, MD PhD". Stanford University Neurosciences Institute.
- ^ "Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Howard Y. Chang". Stanford University. Archived from the original on December 5, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- ^ "中研院院士解開「自體免疫疾病」之謎！張昭雄之子張元豪：罪魁禍首是RNA分子「Xist」". The Storm Media (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 4 February 2024. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
- ^ "Howard Y. Chang, MD PhD". Stanford University. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- ^ "2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
- ^ King Faisal Prize 2024
- ^ Albany Medical Center Prize 2024
- ^ "Howard Y. Chang". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- Scientists from Taipei
- 21st-century American physicians
- Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
- Harvard Medical School alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the National Academy of Medicine
- Stanford University School of Medicine faculty