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]

Howard Y. Chang
Traditional Chinese張元豪
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhang Yuan-Hao
Bopomofoㄓㄤ ㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄠˊ
Wade–GilesChang Yuan-Hao

Biography

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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

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  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. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Howard Y. Chang, MD PhD". Stanford University. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  6. ^ "2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
  7. ^ King Faisal Prize 2024
  8. ^ Albany Medical Center Prize 2024
  9. ^ "Howard Y. Chang". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-01-09.