Hyung Joon Chun, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director, YPB Fellows' Cardiovascular Clinic
Departments & Organizations
Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
Internal Medicine: Cardiology: Congestive Heart Failure
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
- 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]
- Chun, H.J.*, Ali, Z.*, Kojima, Y.*(*co-primary authors), Sheikh, A.Y., Kundu, R.K., Zheng, L.,Pearl, N.E., Patterson, A.J., Ashley, E.A., Anderson, J., Tsao, P.S., Lenardo, M.J., Quertermous, T.,Apelin signaling antagonizes angiotensin II effects in experimental atherosclerosis, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 118(10): 3343-3354 (2008)
- Chun, H.J.*, Zheng, L.*, Ahmad, M.*(*co-primary authors), Wang, J., Siegel, R.M., Dale, J.K.,Fischer, R.E., Puck, J.M., Straus, S.E., Atkinson, T.P., and Lenardo, M.J.; Pleiotropic lymphocyte activation defects due to caspase-8 mutation causes human immunodeficiency; Nature, 419(6905):395-399, 2002
