Lab Members | Emory School of Medicine

Hyojung Choo, PhD
Assistant Professor and Principal investigator

Funded Projects:

The Role of Circular-Utrophin RNAs for Muscle Sparing in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DoD, IDA, PI, 2022-2024)

Development of a wireless nanomembrane wearable biopatch to quantify dysphagia and performance validation with a videofluoroscopic swallow study (Emory-GT I3 award, P.I., 2022-2023)

Development of Nanomembrane Electronics and Machine-Learning Algorithms for Quantitative Screening of Dysphagia Therapeutics (NIBIB, R21, Co-PI, 2021-2024)

Therapeutic targeting of Nox2 and Nox4 in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (NHLBI, R41, Site-PI, 2020-2021)

Myonuclear homeostasis in craniofacial muscles (NIAMS, R01, PI, 2017-2022)

Fang Wu, PhD
Lab manager/Senior research specialist

Dr. Wu maintains animal colonies and performs surgery including stem cell transplantation. She is an expert to isolate muscle stem cells.

Undergraduate Students

Danbi Lim

Danbi has been involved in the project to study the interaction between satellite cells and fibroadipose progenitor cells in pharyngeal muscle.

Publications: Kim E, Wu F, Lim D, Zhang Y, Allen J, Vest KE, and Choo H*.FAPs-mediated satellite cell activation via HGF in pharyngeal muscles without injury (Under review)

Christopher Zeuten

Christopher has been involved in the project to study the role satellite cells in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. He is studying the role of fibroadipose progenitor cells in chewing and swallowing muscles.

Amy Seunghyun Kim

Amy has been involved in the project to study the effect of high fat diet on tongue fat infiltration. She is studying the role of fibroadipose progenitor cells in tongue muscles.

Amanda Kim

Amanda has been involved in the project to determine the role of dysphagia for weight loss of early Alzheimer's disease.

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