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]
Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan.[3] 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.[4] He was awarded the 2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology for "discoveries of long noncoding RNAs and technologies unveiling the noncoding genome."[5] In 2024 he received the King Faisal Prize in Biology.[6]
He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2020.[7]