Lurie winner Chang: Translating the unexpected in gene regulation 

Having co-founded five companies and helped bring three poorly understood nucleic acid types into the spotlight, physician-scientist Howard Chang has repeatedly turned serendipitous discoveries into translational strategies.

Chang, a professor at Stanford University, was named the winner of the 2024 Lurie Prize by the  Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) on June 4 for his work uncovering the existence of long-non coding RNAs (lncRNAs), part of the 98% of the human genome that doesn’t encode proteins, and their roles in disease. ...