Welcome to the Website of Prof. Donald C. Chang (張東才教授
)
Prof. Donald Chang is currently
Professor Emeritus
and
Adjunct Professor
in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained
a
Bachelor degree (Physics) from the National Taiwan University (1965) and Master
and Doctoral degrees (Physics) from Rice University (1970) in the USA. He
was
a joint faculty member in the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas, USA)
and Rice University (Dept of Physics) during the 70s and 80s.
In 1991, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a
founding faculty member. He was appointed
Professor and later Chair Professor.
Prof. Chang has very broad
research interests,
including
bio-medical physics,
quantum physics
and signaling mechanisms in living systems. He had conducted collaborative research in many
institutions, including the Marine
Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (now part of University of Chicago),
Peking University, Tsinghua University, NIH and University of California at San
Diego (with Prof. Roger Tsien).
He has published four books and over 130 papers in international journals,
including Nature, Science, PNAS and Biophys J. Prof.
Chang was a pioneer in the early development of spin-echo NMR for cancer
detection. He was the first one to report that the NMR relaxation times (T1
and T2) undergo a progressive change when the biological tissue
transforms from the normal morphological state to pre-neoplastic and then tumor
state (PNAS 1972 and Nature 1972). He was the founding President
of the Hong Kong Biophysical Society and a Fellow in the Hong Kong Institute of
Science. He enjoys working on innovative projects and owns more than two dozen
international patents.
Research Interests:
Last updated on 2023