HomeDate: 2017-10-23
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced Howard Y. Chang, Academician of Academia Sinica, as one of its newly elected members for 2017. He is amongst the 70 outstanding scholars and experts recognized. Election to National Academy of Medicine, which was established in 1970, is considered one of the highest academic honors in the health and medical field.
Dr. Chang's research focuses on noncoding RNAs, genomes, and regenerative medicine. His outstanding contributions to the field of genomics include pioneering methods of identifying key regulators in large-scale transcriptional programs, which have been successfully applied in developmental biology, cancer, and aging studies.
Dr. Chang is a Professor of Dermatology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Director of the NIH Center of Excellence in Genomic Science: Center for Personal Dynamic Regulome at Stanford University. He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine in the College of Medicine at the National Taiwan University. In 2016, he was elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica and current serves on the Academic Advisory Committee for the Institute of Molecular Biology.
The National Academy of Medicine is a significant advisory authority on critical issues in health, science, medicine, and related policy for the U.S. government. It has a strong influence on scientific policy, research, and innovation.
