Michelle Chang (biochemist)
Michelle C. Y. Chang (born 1977) is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.[1] She is the recipient of several young scientist awards for her research in biosynthesis of biofuels and pharmaceuticals.[2] Previously, she was a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, before moving her lab to Princeton in January 2024.At Berkeley, Chang studied enzyme-catalyzed reactions, demonstrating that by expressing plant P450 enzymes in bacteria like E. coli, the E. coli could be engineered to produce terpenoids, a class of natural products often found in drugs.[9] Michelle was born in San Diego, California, to Chinese immigrant parents from Taiwan.