Howard Hang

Howard Chi Hang is an American chemist and professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology and Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.[1] He was previously Richard E. Salomon Family Associate Professor and the head of the Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Rockefeller University in New York City. He won the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry in 2017.[2]

Howard C. Hang
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Cruz
Harvard Medical School and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Known forContributions in the field of chemical biology
AwardsEli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (2017)
Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award (2008)
Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Award (2007)
Scientific career
Fieldschemistry, chemical biology
InstitutionsThe Scripps Research Institute
ThesisChemical approaches to the study of mucin-type O-linked glycosylation (2003)
Doctoral advisorCarolyn R. Bertozzi

Education and Career

Hang earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1998, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 where he carried out research in the group Professor Carolyn Bertozzi. He then worked with Professor Hidde Ploegh at Harvard Medical School and the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research from 2004 through 2006 as a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.[3] He set up his own lab at the Rockefeller University in 2007 and moved to The Scripps Research Institute in 2020.[4]

Research

Hang's work involves developing chemical methods to understand mechanisms of how immune cells and invading microbes interact, and to develop new methods to combat infections.[2]

References
  1. "Department of Immunology and Microbiology Faculty - Howard Hang, PhD". 5 January 2023.
  2. "Howard C. Hang receives 2017 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry". The Rockefeller University. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  3. "Howard C. Hang, Ph.D." The Rockefeller University. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  4. Gawrylewski, Andrea. "Howard Hang: An immunologist's chemist". The Scientist. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
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