Christopher Chung is a rising second year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh. His project involves the encapsulation of VEGF in polymer microspheres, and their role in vasculogenesis of tissue-engineering constructs.
Publications:
Muthumani K, Laddy DJ, Sundaram SG, Fagone P, Shedlock DJ, Kannan S, Wu L, Chung CW, Lankaraman KM, Burns J, Muthumani K, Weiner, DB.Coimmunization with an optimized plasmid-encoded immune stimulatory interleukin HMGB1 results in enhanced IFN-g secretion by antigen-specific CD8 T cells. Immunology. Jan 2009.
Muthumani K, Lambert VM, Shanmugam M, Thieu KP, Choo AY, Chung CW, Satishchandran A, Kim JJ, Weiner DB, Ugen KE. Anti-tumor activity mediated by protein and peptide transduction of HIV viral protein R (Vpr). Cancer Biol Ther. Jan 2009; 8(2):180-7.
Muthumani K, Choo AY, Shedlock DJ, Laddy DJ, Sundaram SG, Hirao L, Wu L, Thieu KP, Chung CW, Lankaraman KM, Tebas P, Silvestri G, Weiner DB.
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Nef induces programmed death 1 expression through a p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase-dependent mechanism. J Virol. 2008; 82(23):11536-44.
Shedlock DJ, Hwang D, Choo AY, Chung CW, Muthumani K, Weiner DB. HIV-1 viral genes and mitochondrial apoptosis. Apoptosis. 2008 Sep; 13(9):1088-99.
Muthumani K, Lankaraman KM, Laddy DJ, Sundaram SG, Chung CW, Sako E, Wu L, Khan A, Sardesai N, Kim JJ, Vijayachari P, Weiner DB. Immunogenicity of novel consensus-based DNA vaccines against Chikungunya virus. Vaccine. 2008; 26(40):5128-34.
