Professor Christopher J Chang
Christopher J. Chang was born in Ames, Iowa in 1974 and grew up in Indiana and California. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Caltech in 1997, working with Prof. Harry Gray on the electronic structures of metal-nitrido and metal-oxo salen complexes. After spending a year as a Fulbright scholar in Strasbourg, France with Dr. Jean-Pierre Sauvage in the area of chemical topology, Chris was an NSF and Merck predoctoral fellow at MIT and received his Ph.D. in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Dan Nocera, where his thesis focused on the application of proton-coupled electron transfer as a mechanistic platform for developing catalytic oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. He stayed at MIT as a Jane Coffins Childs postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Steve Lippard from 2002 to 2004, working on zinc sensing for neuroscience applications and then began his independent career at UC Berkeley in July 2004. He is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Chris' research laboratory currently uses a combination of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, chemical biology, and molecular biology approaches to study problems in neuroscience, immunology, energy research, and green chemistry. His honors and awards include a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2004), American Federation for Aging Resesarch Award (2005), Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator (2005), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006), Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2006), Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2007), Paul Saltman Award, Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference (2008), Amgen Young Investigator Award (2008), Hellman Faculty Award (2008), Bau Award in Inorganic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008), Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award (2008), Astra Zeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2009), Novartis Young Investigator Award (2009), and ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2010).
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Metals on the Brain: Probing Cellular Chemistry with Molecular Imaging
