Cheng-Ming Chiang was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1961. He received his B.S. from Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University in 1984, and his Ph.D. from Department of Biochemistry, University of Rochester in 1991. His doctoral dissertation was supervised by Professors Louise Chow and Thomas Broker. After finishing his postdoctoral training with Professor Robert Roeder at Rockefeller University, he took a faculty position in the Department of Biochemistry at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995. In 2000, he moved to Department of Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University as tenured Associate Professor. He has recently accepted a Professorship at UT Southwestern and relocated his laboratory to UT Southwestern in July 2007. Cheng-Ming is a 1996 Pew Scholar and has been an editorial board member of Journal of Biological Chemistry and Faculty of 1000 since 2003. He presently serves as a regular member for American Cancer Society Genetic Mechanisms in Cancer and National Institutes of Health Virology B study sections. His research interests span transcription, chromatin, gene regulation, and virology.
