Yuan Chang

Yuan Chang
Born (1959-11-17) November 17, 1959 (age 65)
Alma materUniversity of Utah (MD)
Stanford University
Known forDiscovery of the human cancer viruses KSHV and MCV
SpousePatrick S. Moore
AwardsMeyenburg Prize (1997)
Robert Koch Prize (1998)
Charles S. Mott Prize (2003)
Paul Marks Prize (2003)
American Cancer Society Professorship
Clarivate Citation Laureates (2017)
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsCancer, Virology, Pathology
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Columbia University

Yuan Chang (simplified Chinese: 张远; traditional Chinese: 張遠; pinyin: Zhāng Yuǎn; born 17 November 1959) is a Taiwanese-born American virologist and pathologist who co-discovered together with her husband, Patrick S. Moore, the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Merkel cell polyomavirus, two of the seven known human oncoviruses.