Hyung Joon Chun MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director, YPB Fellows' Cardiovascular Clinic

Departments & Organizations

Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program

Internal Medicine: Cardiology: YCVRC

Research Interests

Atherosclerosis; pulmonary hypertension; angiogenesis; GPCR signaling; endothelial cell function; vascular pharmacology; apelin; angiotensin II more...

Education

• B.A., Harvard University, 1995
• M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2002

Selected Publications

• Kim J, Kang Y, Kojima Y, Lighthouse JK, Hu X, Aldred MA, McLean DL, Park H, Comhair SA, Greif DM, Erzurum SC and Chun HJ: An endothelial apelin-FGF link mediated by miR-424 and miR-503 is disrupted in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Nat Med. 2012 Dec 23; Epub 2012 Dec 23. PMID: 23263626
• McLean, D.L., Kim, J., Kang, Y., Shi, H., Atkins, G.B., Jain, M.K., and Chun, H.J. (2012). Apelin/APJ Signaling Is a Critical Regulator of Statin Effects in Vascular Endothelial Cells—Brief Report. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, published online before print September 20, 2012
• Chandra, S.M., Razavi, H., Kim, J., Agrawal, R., Kundu, R., de Jesus Perez, V., Zamanian, R.T., Quertermous, T., and Chun, H.J., Disruption of the Apelin-APJ System Worsens Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension, ATVB, (2011) [Epub ahead of print]

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