Howard Y. Chang
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January 11, 1972
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Howard Y. Chang | |||||||||||
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| 張元豪 | |||||||||||
| Born | Chang Yuan-hao January 11, 1972 Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) | ||||||||||
| Known for | Long non-coding RNA | ||||||||||
| Father | Chang Chau-hsiung | ||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||
| Fields | Molecular biology | ||||||||||
| Institutions | Stanford University | ||||||||||
| Thesis | Molecular studies of Fas signaling and programmed cell death (1998) | ||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | David Baltimore | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 張元豪 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张元豪 | ||||||||||
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Howard Yuan-hao Chang (Chinese: 張元豪; pinyin: Zhāng Yuánháo; born January 11, 1972) is a Taiwanese-American physician-scientist and molecular biologist. He is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is also a joint professor of dermatology, genetics, and pathology.
Since 2024, Chang has been the senior vice president of research and chief scientific officer of Amgen.[1] He is also a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[2] He is best known for his research on long non-coding RNAs.[3]
Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on January 11, 1972, to a family of Taiwanese physicians.[4] He is the son of Taiwanese physician and politician Chang Chau-hsiung, a former chair of the People First Party.[5] When he was twelve years old, Chang moved with his mother and younger brother to Southern California.[6]
Chang graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry in 1994.[7] As an undergraduate at Harvard College, he worked in the laboratory of biochemist Christopher T. Walsh.[6] He then earned his Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under Nobel laureate David Baltimore in 1998, after only two years of study.[7]
In 2000, Chang earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Harvard Medical School.[7] As a medical student at Harvard, Chang was a member of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology,[8] and won the medical school's Leon Reznick Memorial Prize for excellence in research.[9]
