Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Assistant Professor
Biography
Research Interests
- Pathology of Muscular Dystrophy
- Muscle Stem Cells and Muscle Regeneration
- Craniofacial Muscle Biology
Educational Background
- BS Life Sciences (2002) Korea University
- PhD Biopharmaceutical Engineering (2008) Korea University
- Postdoctoral Training (2015) Emory University
Teaching Experience
- Stem Cell Biology
- Human Physiology
Selected Publications
Publications by Dr. Choo may be found at Pubmed
- Kim A, Xu C, Kim K, Xu X, Du Y, Choo HJ* Growth Differentiation Factor 10 Inhibits Fat Infiltration in Tongue Muscles of Mice with High-Fat Diet. Skeletal Muscle 2025 Aug 13;15(21) Doi: 1186/s13395-025-00389-z
- Shin B, Kwon Y, Mittaz M, Kim H, Xu X, Kim E, Lee YJ, LEE J, Yeo W-H*, Choo HJ*. All-in-one wearable drug efficacy assessment systems for bulbar muscle function using amyotrophic lateral sclerosis animal models Nature Communications. 2024 Aug 9;15:6803 Doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51300-1
- Shin B, Lee SH, Kwon K, Lee YJ, Crispe N, Ahn S-Y, Shelly S, Sundholm N, Tkaczuk A, Yeo M-K*, Choo HJ*, Yeo W-H*. Automatic Clinical Assessment of Swallowing Behavior and Diagnosis of Silent Aspiration Using Wireless Multimodal Wearable Electronics Advanced Science. 2024 Sep;11(34):e2404211 Doi: 10.1002/advs.202404211
- Foltz SJ, Hartzell HC, Choo HJ* In vivo Electroporation of Skeletal Muscle Fibers in Mice. Bio-protocol. 2023 Jul 5;13(13):e4759. doi: 21769/BioProtoc.4759
- Zhang Y, Zeuthen C, Zhu C, Wu F, Mezzell AT, Choo HJ*, Vest KE*. Pharyngeal pathology in a mouse model of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy is associated with impaired basal autophagy in myoblasts. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology-Stem Cell Research 2022 Oct 14; 10:986930. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.986930
- Kim E, Wu F, Lim D, Zeuthen C, Zhang Y, Allen J, Muraine L, Trollet C, Vest KE, Choo HJ*. The role of FAPs for the basal proliferation of satellite cells and muscle homeostasis in pharyngeal muscles. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology-Stem Cell Research 2022 May 17; 10:875209. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.875209.
- Foltz SJ, Wu F, Ghazal N, Kwong JQ, Hartzell HC*, Choo HJ*. Sex differences in the involvement of skeletal and cardiac muscles in myopathic Ano5-/- Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2022 Feb 1;322(2):C283-C295. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00350.2021.
