Howard Y.Chang is a Taiwanese-born American physician-scientist. He is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics and of Genetics at Stanford University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. 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. He was awarded the 2018 NAS Award in Molecular Biology for discoveries of long noncoding RNAs and technologies unveiling the noncoding genome.