Leaders in Research
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| Sandy Chang, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics Department of Genetics M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas
Dr. Chang received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, then pursued a combined MD, PhD degree program administered jointly by Rockefeller University and Cornell University Medical College. After receiving both degrees in 1997, he completed his residency in Clinical Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and became an Instructor in Pathology in 1999. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute where he studied the impact of telomere dysfunction during the aging process in mice. Dr. Chang also generated the first faithful mouse model of human Werner Syndrome, a disease characterized by premature aging syndromes and genomic instability.
Dr. Chang became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics
at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2002 and is continuing his studies of
the WS mouse. He is also an adjunct professor in the Huffington Center on Aging
at the Baylor College of Medicine. | |
| Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Telomere Induced Genomic Instability in Premature Aging
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Sandy Chang is a Clinical Pathologist who became interested in aging research
when he worked on the telomerase knockout mouse as a postdoctoral fellow.