Howard Y. Chang

Howard Y. Chang
張元豪
Born
Chang Yuan-hao

1972 (age 53–54)
EducationHarvard University (BA, MD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forlong non-coding RNA
FatherChang Chau-hsiung
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
InstitutionsAmgen, Stanford University
ThesisMolecular studies of Fas signaling and programmed cell death (1998)
Doctoral advisorDavid Baltimore
Other academic advisors
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese張元豪
Simplified Chinese张元豪
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhang Yuan-Hao
Bopomofoㄓㄤ ㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄠˊ
Wade–GilesChang Yuan-Hao

Howard Yuan-hao Chang (Chinese: 張元豪; pinyin: Zhāng Yuánháo; born 1972) is a Taiwanese-American physician-scientist who has been the senior vice president of research and chief scientific officer of Amgen since 2024. Previously, he was the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics and of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he was also an HHMI investigator. He is best known for his research on long non-coding RNAs.