Yongchang Chang, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Ion Channel Biophysics
Dr. Yongchang Chang is an Assistant Staff Scientist in the Division of Neurobiology at Barrow Neurological Institute. He received his medical degree in 1982 from Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, and his PhD in Physiology and Biophysics in 1998 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Chang has over 15 years of experience studying the structure-function relationship of ligand-gated ion channels. He has published 13 peer-reviewed research papers on the fundamental properties of ligand-gated ion channels, 4 peer-reviewed papers on translational studies, and 3 book chapters. In collaboration with Dr. Jie Wu, Dr. Chang has received a National Institutes of Health grant to study the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated excitation in human hypothalamic hamartomas.
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