Welcome to the Chung Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chung’s research relates to the genetic basis of a variety of human diseases including obesity, type 2 diabetes, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, Long QT syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, endocrinopathies, congenital diaphragmatic hernias, seizures, intellectual disabilities, autism, inherited metabolic conditions, rare disorders, and breast cancer susceptibility. She also works on the implementation of genomic and precision medicine and newborn screening.
Recent papers and news articles
Recent papers:
Implementation of Rapid Genome Sequencing for Critically Ill Infants With Complex Congenital Heart Disease. Hays T, Hernan R, Disco M, Griffin EL, Goldshtrom N, Vargas D, Krishnamurthy G, Bomback M, Rehman AU, Wilson AT, Guha S, Phadke S, Okur V, Robinson D, Felice V, Abhyankar A, Jobanputra V, Chung WK . (2023) Circ Genom Precis Med, PMID: 37417234
RNA interference (RNAi)-based therapeutics for treatment of rare neurologic diseases. Germain ND, Chung WK , Sarmiere PD. (2023) Mol Aspects Med, PMID: 36257857
Clinical and genetic characterization of CACNA1A-related disease. Lipman AR, Fan X, Shen Y, Chung WK . (2022) Clin Genet, PMID: 35722745
Chung Lab at Boston Children's Hospital 