Sandy Chang
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Biography
Dr. Chang graduated with a BS from Yale College in 1988, and obtained his MD from Cornell University Medical College and his PhD from Rockefeller University in 1997. He completed residency in Clinical Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and did his postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Ronald DePinho at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. He was an Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, before joining the faculty at Yale Medical School as a tenured Associate Professor in 2010. Dr. Chang's research interests focuses on how telomeres, protein/DNA structures at the ends of chromosomes, are properly maintained to protect chromosome ends from engaging a DNA damage response.
Dr. Chang is the recipient of numerous awards, including those from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Ellsion Medical Foundation, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Ellis Benson Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists. He was elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2009.
Beginning in 2017, Dr. Chang is also the Associate Dean of Science Education and Quantitative Reasoning and Undergraduate Research at Yale College.
Education & Training
- ResidentBrigham & Women's Hospital (2000)
- ResidentBrigham & Women's Hospital (1998)
- MDCornell University Medical College (1997)
- PhDRockefeller University (1996)
- BSYale University (1988)
Activities
- Invited speaker to many international conferences(2002-2011)Invited speaker to many international conferences
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Election into the American Society of Clinical Investigation | American Society of Clinical Investigation | 2009 |
Ellis Benson Award | Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists | 2007 |
Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award | Sidney Kimmel Foundation | 2005 |
New Scholar in Aging Award | Ellison Medical Foundation | 2001 |
Departments & Organizations
- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- Experimental Pathology Graduate Program
- Laboratory Medicine
- Laboratory Medicine - Education
- Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Pathology
- Pathology Research
- Radiobiology and Genome Integrity
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age)
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures