Yung Chang

Professor
Yung
Chang

Professor
Cornell University College of Veterinary medicine
Biography

Yung-Fu Chang

Professor

Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences

C1-114 Veterinary Medical Center

Phone: 607-253-3675

Email: yc42@cornell.edu

EDUCATION:

D.V.M. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Veterinary Medicine)

M.S. University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (Immunology/Pathology)

Ph.D. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (Microbiology/Immunology)

Postdoctoral Texas A&M University, Department of Medical Biochemistry

and Genetics, College of Medicine, College Station, Texas (Molecular Biology)

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1979-1981 Research Assistant and Graduate Student, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

1981-1984 Research Assistant and Graduate Student, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

1986-1989 Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, College of Medicine, and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Agriculture & Life Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

1989-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1996-2002 Associate Professor, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

2003 (January –July), Visiting professor, Department of Infectious Disease and Medicine, College of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

2003-present Professor, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Leptospirosis Research Conference, Inc., American Society for Microbiology, American College of Veterinary Microbiologist, Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, International Leptospirosis Society, New York State Veterinary Society, Society of Sigma Xi, The Society of Phi Zeta.

Research interests

Bacterial pathogenesis, vaccine and adjuvant development, recombinant and subunit vaccine