2026 Howard Y. Chang: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	163	58	50	39	35	486	145637

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
2015 - Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
1992 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Howard Y. Chang is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their scholarly contributions span several fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on molecular biology, cancer research, immunology, oncology, and genetics.

Their research topics cover a broad range of areas, including cancer genomics and diagnostics, genomics and chromatin dynamics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Howard Y. Chang include:

Paul S. Mischel
Vineet Bafna
Ansuman T. Satpathy
Kathryn E. Yost
Jens Luebeck

Some of the major publication venues for the scientist's work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Genetics
Nature
Nature Communications
Cancer Research

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Howard Y. Chang are:

Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations, 2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
CRISPR-engineered T cells in patients with refractory cancer, 2020, Science
ArchR is a scalable software package for integrative single-cell chromatin accessibility analysis, 2021, Nature Genetics
Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing, 2021, Cell
Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with oncogene amplification and poor outcome across multiple cancers, 2020, Nature Genetics

Howard Y. Chang has been recognized with several awards, including:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2017
Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 2015
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 1992

Best Publications

Transposition of native chromatin for fast and sensitive epigenomic profiling of open chromatin, DNA-binding proteins and nucleosome position

Jason D Buenrostro;Paul G Giresi;Lisa C Zaba;Howard Y Chang

6106
Citations
Long non-coding RNA HOTAIR reprograms chromatin state to promote cancer metastasis

Rajnish A. Gupta;Nilay R. Shah;Kevin C. Wang;Jeewon Kim

5743
Citations
Functional Demarcation of Active and Silent Chromatin Domains in Human HOX Loci by Noncoding RNAs

John L. Rinn;Michael Kertesz;Jordon K. Wang;Sharon L. Squazzo

4956
Citations
Molecular Mechanisms of Long Noncoding RNAs

Kevin C. Wang;Howard Y. Chang

4628
Citations
Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs

John L. Rinn;Howard Y. Chang

4251
Citations
Long Noncoding RNA as Modular Scaffold of Histone Modification Complexes

Miao-Chih Tsai;Ohad Manor;Yue Wan;Nima Mosammaparast

3667
Citations
Unique features of long non-coding RNA biogenesis and function

Jeffrey J. Quinn;Howard Y. Chang

3370
Citations
ATAC-seq: A Method for Assaying Chromatin Accessibility Genome-Wide

Jason D. Buenrostro;Beijing Wu;Howard Y. Chang;William J. Greenleaf

3094
Citations
Long Noncoding RNAs in Cancer Pathways

Adam M. Schmitt;Howard Y. Chang

2882
Citations
Long Noncoding RNAs: Cellular Address Codes in Development and Disease

Pedro J. Batista;Howard Y. Chang

2655
Citations
A long noncoding RNA maintains active chromatin to coordinate homeotic gene expression

Kevin C. Wang;Yul W. Yang;Bo Liu;Amartya Sanyal

2146
Citations
Long noncoding RNAs and human disease

Orly Wapinski;Howard Y. Chang

2138
Citations
Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation

Jason D. Buenrostro;Beijing Wu;Ulrike M. Litzenburger;Dave Ruff

2057
Citations
An improved ATAC-seq protocol reduces background and enables interrogation of frozen tissues

M Ryan Corces;Alexandro E Trevino;Emily G Hamilton;Peyton G Greenside

2017
Citations
Diversity, topographic differentiation, and positional memory in human fibroblasts

Howard Y. Chang;Jen-Tsan Chi;Sandrine Dudoit;Chanda Bondre

1386
Citations
Genomic maps of long noncoding RNA occupancy reveal principles of RNA-chromatin interactions.

Ci Chu;Kun Qu;Franklin L. Zhong;Steven E. Artandi

1338
Citations
Extensive and coordinated transcription of noncoding RNAs within cell-cycle promoters

Tiffany Hung;Yulei Wang;Michael F. Lin;Michael F. Lin;Ashley K. Koegel

1332
Citations
Daxx, a novel fas-binding protein that activates jnk and apoptosis

Xiaolu Yang;Roya Khosravi-Far;Howard Y. Chang;David Baltimore

1274
Citations
SIRT6 is a histone H3 lysine 9 deacetylase that modulates telomeric chromatin

Eriko Michishita;Ronald A. McCord;Elisabeth Berber;Mitomu Kioi

1226
Citations
Robustness, scalability, and integration of a wound-response gene expression signature in predicting breast cancer survival

Howard Y. Chang;Dimitry S. A. Nuyten;Julie B. Sneddon;Trevor Hastie

1217
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Greenleaf Stanford University

Ansuman T. Satpathy Stanford University

Paul A. Khavari Stanford University

Jason D. Buenrostro Harvard University

John L. Rinn University of Colorado Boulder

Michael T. Longaker Stanford University

Eran Segal Weizmann Institute of Science

Marius Wernig Stanford University

Michael Snyder Stanford University

Anshul Kundaje Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Howard Y. Chang

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