院士簡歷

Division of Life Sciences

Ta-Yuan Chang 張大元
Election Year 2024
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
1 Rope Ferry Road
Hanover, NH 03755-1404
Tel: 603-646-5183

Current Positions

Professor, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College

Education

B.S. in Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1967
Ph.D. in Biochemistry (with Mary Ellen Jones), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1968-1973
Postdoctoral Fellow (with Roy Vagelos), Department of Biological Chemistry, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1973-1975
Postdoctoral Fellow (with Roy Vagelos), Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, 1975-1976

Professional Experience

1976-1982 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School
1982-1988 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School
1988-2000 Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School
2000-2008 Professor and Chairman, Dept of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School
2008-present Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Dartmouth Medical School
Chang Laboratory Website: http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/chang/

Specialties

Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism in Human Health and Diseases

Awards and Honors

NIH Research Career Development Award (1982-1987)
NIH MERIT Award (1994-2004)
Elected AAAS Fellow (2011)
Elected U.S. National Academy of Sciences Member (2021) https://www.nasonline.org/memberdirectory/members/20051886.html Drs. Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, nominated Dr. Chang to be a National Academy of Science member. Drs. Brown and Goldstein received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985 for their seminal discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Consultantships:
Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals, Ann-Arbor, MI (1992-1994)
Pierre-Fabre Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Castres, France (1998-2000)
Chugai Pharmaceuticals, Gotemba, Japan (1998-2001)
National Health Research Institutes, Review Board Member, Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, Taiwan (2002-2017)