Howard Y. Chang

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 and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Biography
Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. 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. He was awarded the 2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology for "discoveries of long noncoding RNAs and technologies unveiling the noncoding genome." In 2024 he received the King Faisal Prize in Biology.

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