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

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and a

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Investigator. Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He studied biochemistry at

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and completed a doctorate in biology at the

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and medical degree at

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as part of the Harvard-MIT physician scientist training program. He was awarded the 2018

NAS Award in Molecular Biology The NAS Award in Molecular Biology is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for recent notable discovery in molecular biology by a young scientist who is a citizen of the United States." It has been awarded annually since its inceptio ...

for "discoveries of long noncoding RNAs and technologies unveiling the noncoding genome." He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2020.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chang, Howard Y. 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 Stanford University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the National Academy of Medicine