Howard Chang MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology and Genetics, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Professor of Dermatology and of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Chang earned a Ph.D. in Biology from MIT, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and completed a Dermatology residency and postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
Dr. Chang’s research focuses on mechanisms that coordinate the activities of large numbers of genes in cell fate control. His research group discovered long noncoding RNAs, illuminating an important and pervasive layer of biological regulation. The Chang group has also pioneered methods to identify key regulators of large-scale transcriptional programs and has used these methods to make important discoveries in development, cancer, aging, and autoimmunity.
Dr. Chang’s honors include the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, the Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute, and the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, the Judson Daland Prize of the American Philosophical Society, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist, the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, and the Alfred Marchionini Research Prize, among many other awards. He is also the 2024 Laureate for the King Faisal Prize for Science.
Dr. Chang has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the National Academy of Medicine, as well as other prestigious scientific organizations.