Dr. Ying Chang is a Research Fellow at the Genomics Research Center and Biomedical Translation Research Center (by courtesy), Academia Sinica. She is also an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and an affiliated Member of the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center at Stanford University. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the Taiwan-Stanford Partnership program, LEAP, at Stanford University. In 1999 to 2002, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California-Irvine.

Prior to her academic appointments, Dr. Chang had mainly worked in early-stage technology companies, responsible for their R&D efforts: She was a Senior Engineer at a hard drive media company, MaxMedia California (San Jose, CA; now Seagate), a Research Fellow at the first GeneChip company in the world, Affymetrix (Santa Clara, CA; now Thermal Fisher Scientific), and the first biomaterials scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto, CA; a subsidiary of Xerox) establishing the biomaterials laboratory. Her laboratory is in the frontier of integrating nanomaterials, microfluidics, and bioreactors for cell research; research highlights include controlling stem cell fates for tissue engineering, liquid biopsy for cancer diagnostics, 3D culture for precision medicine, and biopsy based cancer immuno-technology.

In addition to her academic interests, Dr. Chang is interested in technology transfer and entrepreneurship. Her invention, CMx, a microfluidic platform for circulating tumor cell isolation, has led to a spin-off cancer detection company, Cellmax Life, in 2013 (headquarter at Sunnyvale, CA and R&D center in Taipei). Her invention was recognized by Medtech Breakthrough Award in 2018 (USA), and she was interviewed by Wall Street Journal “Entrepreneur’s Retreat” (2015) for her effort to launch the company.

Dr. Chang received her BS from National Taiwan University and PhD from Stanford University in Chemical Engineering.