Christopher Chang

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Christopher J. Chang
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Ames, Iowa, U.S.
Alma mater California Institute of Technology (BS, MS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouse Michelle Chang
AwardsACS Cope Scholar Award (2010)
Sackler Prize in Chemistry (2019)
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry
Institutions UC Berkeley Princeton University
Thesis Small-molecule activation chemistry catalyzed by proton-coupled electron transfer  (2002)
Doctoral advisor Daniel G. Nocera
Other academic advisors Harry B. Gray, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Stephen J. Lippard
Notable students Hemamala Karunadasa
Website chrischang.chemistry.princeton.edu

Christopher J. Chang is an American chemist and the Edward and Virginia Taylor Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at Princeton University. Previously, he was a professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Class of 1942 Chair. [1] Chang is also a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, adjunct professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and faculty scientist at the chemical sciences division of Lawrence Berkeley Lab. [1] [2] He is the recipient of several awards for his research in bioinorganic chemistry, molecular and chemical biology. [3]

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His research interests include molecular imaging sensors for the study of redox biology [4] [5] and metals, [6] especially as applied to neuroscience and immunology, metal catalysts for renewable energy cycles, and green chemistry. [1]

Early life and education

Chang was born in 1974 in Ames, Iowa, and was raised in Indiana. [1] [7] 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. [8] [9] [10] Chang earned his BS and MS 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, Chang worked in the laboratory of Daniel G. Nocera. After earning his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 2002, Chang remained at MIT, working with Stephen J. Lippard as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow.

Independent career

In 2004, Chang began his independent career as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He was promoted to associate professor in 2009, and full professor of chemistry in 2012, when he was also appointed professor of molecular and cell biology and co-director, chemical biology graduate program. [1] In 2024, he joined the faculty at Princeton University. [11]

Awards

Personal life

Christopher is married to his colleague in the department of chemistry, Michelle Chang. [7] [22]

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  3. ↑ "Chang Group – Homepage". Cchem.berkeley.edu. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ Miller, Evan W.; Tulyathan, Orapim; Isacoff, Ehud Y.; Chang, Christopher J. (2007). "Molecular imaging of hydrogen peroxide produced for cell signaling : Abstract : Nature Chemical Biology". Nature Chemical Biology. 3 (5): 263–267. doi:10.1038/nchembio871. PMID   17401379.
  5. ↑ Dickinson, Bryan C.; Chang, Christopher J. (2008). "A Targetable Fluorescent Probe for Imaging Hydrogen Peroxide in the Mitochondria of Living Cells". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130 (30): 9638–9639. doi:10.1021/ja802355u. PMC   2810491 . PMID   18605728.
  6. ↑ Domaille, Dylan W.; Zeng, Li; Chang, Christopher J. (2010). "Visualizing Ascorbate-Triggered Release of Labile Copper within Living Cells using a Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensor". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (4): 1194–1195. doi:10.1021/ja907778b. PMC   2819030 . PMID   20052977.
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  8. ↑ Chang, Christopher J.; Low, Donald W.; Gray, Harry B. (1997). "Reversible Nitrogen Atom Transfer between Nitridomanganese(V) and Manganese(III) Schiff-Base Complexes". Inorganic Chemistry. 36 (3): 270–271. doi:10.1021/ic961023a. ISSN   0020-1669.
  9. ↑ Chang, Christopher J.; Connick, William B.; Low, Donald W.; Day, Michael W.; Gray, Harry B. (1998). "Electronic Structures of Nitridomanganese(V) Complexes". Inorganic Chemistry. 37 (12): 3107–3110. doi:10.1021/ic970598k. ISSN   0020-1669.
  10. ↑ Chang, Christopher J.; Labinger, Jay A.; Gray, Harry B. (December 1, 1997). "Aerobic Epoxidation of Olefins Catalyzed by Electronegative Vanadyl Salen Complexes". Inorganic Chemistry. 36 (25): 5927–5930. doi:10.1021/ic970824q. ISSN   0020-1669. PMID   11670216.
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