Howard Yuan-Hao Chang (traditional Chinese: 張元豪; born 1972) is a Taiwanese-American physician-scientist.
He is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics and of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine[1] and a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
[2] He will be the senior vice president of research and the chief scientific officer of Amgen.
at Harvard Medical School as part of the "Harvard-MIT physician scientist training program" working in David Baltimore's laboratory.
After starting his own lab, his group discovered unexpected transcriptional activity for noncoding DNA and identified HOTAIR which further confirmed the importance of Long non-coding RNAs.