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Academician Howard Y. Chang Elected Member of National Academy of Sciences and Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Date: 2020-04-29

On April 23, Academician Howard Y. Chang was elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and on April 27 was elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Both honors are in recognition of his contributions to research on noncoding RNAs, genomes, and regenerative medicine.

   Dr. Chang is currently serving at Stanford University. His discoveries in long non-coding RNAs (IncRNAs) are considered significant breakthroughs following the discovery of the DNA sequence. Moreover, his pioneering methods of identifying key regulators in large-scale transcriptional programs have been successfully applied in developmental biology, cancer, and aging studies.

   Dr. Chang was elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2017, and has received numerous honors, including the NAS Award in Molecular Biology, and the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research awarded by the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His research was also selected as 1 of 25 Cell Landmark Papers published in 1974-2014. Apart from teaching in the U.S., Dr. Chang serves as Distinguished Chair Professor at the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine at National Taiwan University. Dr. Chang was elected Academia Sinica Academician in 2016.

   Founded in 1863, the National Academy of Sciences is a prestigious non-profit scholarly organization with a global impact that provides independent and objective advice in the fields of health, education, welfare, and science. The year 2020 marked the selection of 120 new Members and 26 new foreign Members. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected 276 new Members this year. Each Member represents today’s innovative thinkers in their fields.

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