Martha Cyert named to Dr. Nancy Chang Professorship

Congratualations to Professor Martha Cyert, who has been appointed to the Dr. Nancy Chang Professorship.  This endowed chair was established by Dr. Nancy Chang in 2004 in honor of Stanford's Campaign for Undergraduate Education.  Dr. Chang is one of the co-founders of Tanox, Inc., a pharmaceutical company based in Houston that continues to reserch and develop therapeutic monoclonal antibodies designed to address significant unmet medical needs in the areas of asthma, allergy, inflammation and other diseases affecting the human immune system. Both of Dr. Chang's daughters were majors in Biology at Stanford.