Chris Chang
Chris Chang was born in Ames, Iowa, and was raised in Indiana. He attended the California Institute of Technology for his undergraduate degree, where he studied chemistry. At Caltech, he worked with Harry B. Gray on the synthesis and characterization of metal salen complexes of manganese and vanadium, and nitrogen and oxygen transfer reactivity with these complexes, respectively.
Chris earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry in 1997, after which he worked in the laboratory of Jean-Pierre Sauvage at the Université Louis Pasteur as a Fulbright Fellow. In 1999, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a NSF/Merck Graduate Fellow. During his doctoral studies, Chris worked in the laboratory of Daniel G. Nocera. After earning his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 2002, Chris remained at MIT, working with Stephen J. Lippard as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow.
Chris Chang
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
Class of 1942 Chair
Member, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Adjunct Professor, UCSF
401 Latimer Hall
Department of Chemistry
Berkeley, CA 94720
Office: 532A / Phone: (510) 642-4704
Lab (Latimer): 401, 437 / Phone: (510) 643-4160
Lab (Tan): 572, 574, 584 / Phone: (510) 643-9522
Education
| Postdoc. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow Advisor: Stephen J. Lippard |
2002 – 2004 |
| Ph.D. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT/Merck Foundation Predoctoral Fellow Advisor: Daniel G. Nocera |
1999 – 2002 |
| Predoc. |
California Institute of Technology NSF Predoctoral Fellow Advisor: Harry B. Gray |
1998 – 1999 |
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Université Louis Pasteur Fulbright Fellow Advisor: Jean-Pierre Sauvage |
1997 – 1998 | |
| B.S./M.S. |
California Institute of Technology
Advisor: Harry B. Gray |
1992 – 1997 |
Experience
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Professor of Chemistry Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology Co-director, Chemical Biology Graduate Program University of California, Berkeley |
2012 – Present |
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Associate Professor of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley |
2009 – 2012 |
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley |
2004 – 2009 |
Honors & Awards
| ACS Bader Award in Bioorganic or Bioinorganic Chemistry | 2024 |
| Editor-in-Chief, ACS Accounts of Chemical Research | 2024 |
| Ivano Bertini Award, International Meeting on Copper Biology | 2022 |
| Guggenheim Fellowship | 2021 |
| Humboldt Research Award | 2020 |
| Sackler Prize in Chemistry | 2019 |
| RSC Jeremy Knowles Award | 2018 |
| Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences | 2017 |
| Cruickshank Award, Gordon Research Conferences | 2016 |
| Blavatnik Award in Chemistry | 2015 |
| Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry | 2015 |
| Sackler Professor, UC Berkeley/UCSF | 2014 – 2015 |
| ACS Baekeland Award | 2013 |
| Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | 2013 |
| ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award in Graduate Education | 2013 |
| RSC Award in Transition Metal Chemistry | 2012 |
| ACS Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry | 2012 |
| Miller Research Professor | 2011 – 2012 |
| Wilson Prize (Harvard University) | 2011 |
| SBIC Early Career Award | 2011 |
| ACS Cope Scholar Award | 2010 |
| Novartis Early Career Award | 2009 |
| Astra Zeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award | 2009 |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator | 2008 |
| Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award | 2008 |
| Bau Family Award in Inorganic Chemistry | 2008 |
| Hellman Faculty Award | 2008 |
| Amgen Young Investigator Award | 2008 |
| Paul Saltman Award, Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference | 2008 |
| Sloan Fellowship | 2007 |
| Packard Fellowship | 2006 |
| NSF CAREER Award | 2006 |
| American Federation for Aging Research Award | 2005 |
| Beckman Young Investigator Award | 2005 |
| Dreyfus New Faculty Award | 2004 |
| Davison Thesis Prize (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | 2003 |
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