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Neuroscience
Korea
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
75
Citations
22203
World Ranking
2003
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Kon Chu is affiliated with Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Epidemiology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including autoimmune neurological disorders and treatments, epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, peripheral neuropathies and disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, bacterial infections and vaccines, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Kon Chu has contributed to numerous publications, notably in venues such as encephalitis, Scientific Reports, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Journal of Clinical Neurology, and Sleep Medicine.

  • Teratoma Removal, Steroid, IVIG, Rituximab and Tocilizumab (T-SIRT) in Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis (2020, Neurotherapeutics)
  • Seronegative autoimmune encephalitis: clinical characteristics and factors associated with outcomes (2022, Brain)
  • Altered resting-state thalamo-occipital functional connectivity is associated with cognition in isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (2020, Sleep Medicine)
  • A hospital-based study on etiology and prognosis of bacterial meningitis in adults (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Tofacitinib treatment for refractory autoimmune encephalitis (2021, Epilepsia)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, among whom Sang Kun Lee, Soon-Tae Lee, Jangsup Moon, Kyung-Il Park, and Keun-Hwa Jung are the most notable coauthors.

Best Publications

  • Stretchable silicon nanoribbon electronics for skin prosthesis

    Jaemin Kim;Mincheol Lee;Hyung Joon Shim;Roozbeh Ghaffari

  • Human Neural Stem Cell Transplantation Promotes Functional Recovery in Rats With Experimental Intracerebral Hemorrhage

    Sang Wuk Jeong;Kon Chu;Keun Hwa Jung;Seung U. Kim;Seung U. Kim

  • Anti-inflammatory mechanism of intravascular neural stem cell transplantation in haemorrhagic stroke.

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kunhwa Jung;Se Jeong Kim

  • Hyperglycemia Exacerbates Brain Edema and Perihematomal Cell Death After Intracerebral Hemorrhage

    Eun-Chol Song;Kon Chu;Sang-Wuk Jeong;Keun-Hwa Jung

  • Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, celecoxib, inhibits the altered hippocampal neurogenesis with attenuation of spontaneous recurrent seizures following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus

    Keun Hwa Jung;Kon Chu;Soon Tae Lee;Juhyun Kim

  • The importance of early immunotherapy in patients with faciobrachial dystonic seizures

    Julia Thompson;Mian Bi;Andrew G Murchison;Mateusz Makuch

  • miR-206 regulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor in Alzheimer disease model

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Keun-Hwa Jung;Jin Hee Kim

  • Human neural stem cells improve sensorimotor deficits in the adult rat brain with experimental focal ischemia.

    Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Kyung-Il Park;Sang-Wuk Jeong

  • Altered microRNA regulation in Huntington's disease models

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kon Chu;Woo-Seok Im;Hye-Jin Yoon

  • Early Intravenous Infusion of Sodium Nitrite Protects Brain Against In Vivo Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

    Kunhwa Jung;Kon Chu;Song Yi Ko;Soon-Tae Lee

  • Panax ginseng enhances cognitive performance in Alzheimer disease.

    Soon Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Ji Young Sim;Jae Hyeok Heo

  • VGKC-complex/LGI1-antibody encephalitis: Clinical manifestations and response to immunotherapy

    Yong-Won Shin;Soon-Tae Lee;Soon-Tae Lee;Jung-Won Shin;Jung-Won Shin;Jangsup Moon;Jangsup Moon

  • Tocilizumab in Autoimmune Encephalitis Refractory to Rituximab: An Institutional Cohort Study

    Woo Jin Lee;Woo Jin Lee;Soon Tae Lee;Soon Tae Lee;Jangsup Moon;Jangsup Moon;Jun Sang Sunwoo;Jun Sang Sunwoo

  • Treatment strategies for autoimmune encephalitis

    Yong Won Shin;Soon-Tae Lee;Kyung Il Park;Kunhwa Jung

  • Human neural stem cells can migrate, differentiate, and integrate after intravenous transplantation in adult rats with transient forebrain ischemia.

    Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Sang-Wuk Jeong;Seung U Kim;Seung U Kim

  • Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor enhances angiogenesis after focal cerebral ischemia.

    Soon-Tae Lee;Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kon Chu;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung;Song-Yi Ko

  • Predictors of surgical outcome and pathologic considerations in focal cortical dysplasia.

    D. W. Kim;S. K. Lee;K. Chu;K. I. Park

  • Continuous cytosine-b-D-arabinofuranoside infusion reduces ectopic granule cells in adult rat hippocampus with attenuation of spontaneous recurrent seizures following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus.

    Keun-Hwa Jung;Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Sang-Wuk Jeong

  • Decreased number and function of endothelial progenitor cells in patients with migraine

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kunhwa Jung;D. H. Kim

  • Systemic transplantation of human adipose stem cells attenuated cerebral inflammation and degeneration in a hemorrhagic stroke model.

    Jeong-Min Kim;Soon-Tae Lee;Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kon Chu;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung

  • The Importance of Early Immunotherapy in patients with Faciobrachial Dystonic Seizures

    J Thompson;M Bi;M Makuch;A Murchison

  • Research report Human neural stem cells improve sensorimotor deficits in the adult rat brain with experimental focal ischemia

    Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Kyung-Il Park;Sang-Wuk Jeong

Frequent Co-Authors

Soon-Tae Lee
Soon-Tae Lee Seoul National University Hospital
Keun-Hwa Jung
Keun-Hwa Jung Seoul National University Hospital
Jung Ah Lim
Jung Ah Lim Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Daejong Jeon
Daejong Jeon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Seung U. Kim
Seung U. Kim University of British Columbia
Péter Klivényi
Péter Klivényi University of Szeged
Hidehiro Mizusawa
Hidehiro Mizusawa Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Christian G. Bien
Christian G. Bien Bielefeld University
Jose F. Tellez-Zenteno
Jose F. Tellez-Zenteno University of Saskatchewan
László Vécsei
László Vécsei University of Szeged

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