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Ung-il Chung

Ung-il Chung

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
22146
World Ranking
3926
National Ranking
256

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Overview

Ung-il Chung is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work notably emphasizes molecular biology, molecular medicine, biomedical engineering, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

Their research topics primarily focus on hydrogels, including synthesis, properties, and applications. Other significant areas include sleep and related disorders, diffusion and search dynamics, material dynamics and properties, 3D printing in biomedical research, pluripotent stem cells research, and osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms.

Ung-il Chung has contributed extensively to scientific literature with recent papers such as:

  • Understanding paraxial mesoderm development and sclerotome specification for skeletal repair, 2020, Experimental & Molecular Medicine
  • Tri-branched gels: Rubbery materials with the lowest branching factor approach the ideal elastic limit, 2022, Science Advances
  • Runx2 and Runx3 differentially regulate articular chondrocytes during surgically induced osteoarthritis development, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Runx2 regulates chromatin accessibility to direct the osteoblast program at neonatal stages, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Swelling Behaviors of Hydrogels with Alternating Neutral/Highly Charged Sequences, 2020, Macromolecules

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Hironori Hojo
  • Takamasa Sakai
  • Shinsuke Ohba
  • Takuya Katashima
  • Hiroyuki Okada

Ung-il Chung has published multiple times in venues such as:

  • Regenerative Therapy
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Polymer Journal

In recognition of contributions to the field, they were named Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Design and Fabrication of a High-Strength Hydrogel with Ideally Homogeneous Network Structure from Tetrahedron-like Macromonomers

    Takamasa Sakai;Takuro Matsunaga;Yuji Yamamoto;Chika Ito

  • PPAR γ insufficiency enhances osteogenesis through osteoblast formation from bone marrow progenitors

    Toru Akune;Shinsuke Ohba;Satoru Kamekura;Masayuki Yamaguchi

  • Surface grafting of artificial joints with a biocompatible polymer for preventing periprosthetic osteolysis

    Toru Moro;Yoshio Takatori;Kazuhiko Ishihara;Tomohiro Konno

  • Osteoarthritis development in novel experimental mouse models induced by knee joint instability.

    S. Kamekura;K. Hoshi;T. Shimoaka;U. Chung

  • Transcriptional regulation of endochondral ossification by HIF-2α during skeletal growth and osteoarthritis development

    Taku Saito;Atsushi Fukai;Akihiko Mabuchi;Toshiyuki Ikeda

  • Ihh signaling is directly required for the osteoblast lineage in the endochondral skeleton

    Fanxin Long;Ung-il Chung;Shinsuke Ohba;Jill McMahon

  • Indian hedgehog couples chondrogenesis to osteogenesis in endochondral bone development

    Ung Il Chung;Ernestina Schipani;Andrew P. McMahon;Henry M. Kronenberg

  • The combination of SOX5, SOX6, and SOX9 (the SOX trio) provides signals sufficient for induction of permanent cartilage

    Toshiyuki Ikeda;Satoru Kamekura;Akihiko Mabuchi;Ikuyo Kou

  • 3D spheroid culture system on micropatterned substrates for improved differentiation efficiency of multipotent mesenchymal stem cells

    Wenjie Wang;Keiji Itaka;Shinsuke Ohba;Nobuhiro Nishiyama

  • Regulation of bone formation by adiponectin through autocrine/paracrine and endocrine pathways.

    Yusuke Shinoda;Masayuki Yamaguchi;Naoshi Ogata;Toru Akune

  • Contribution of runt-related transcription factor 2 to the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis in mice after induction of knee joint instability

    Satoru Kamekura;Yosuke Kawasaki;Kazuto Hoshi;Takashi Shimoaka

  • Heparin potentiates the in vivo ectopic bone formation induced by bone morphogenetic protein-2

    Baohong Zhao;Takenobu Katagiri;Hiromitsu Toyoda;Takatora Takada

  • PTHrP and Indian hedgehog control differentiation of growth plate chondrocytes at multiple steps.

    Tatsuya Kobayashi;Ung Il Chung;Ernestina Schipani;Michael Starbuck

  • Structure Characterization of Tetra-PEG Gel by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

    Takuro Matsunaga;Takamasa Sakai;Yuki Akagi;Ung-il Chung

  • Regulation of osteoclast apoptosis by ubiquitylation of proapoptotic BH3-only Bcl-2 family member Bim.

    Toru Akiyama;Phillippe Bouillet;Tsuyoshi Miyazaki;Yuho Kadono

  • The chondrogenic transcription factor Sox9 is a target of signaling by the parathyroid hormone-related peptide in the growth plate of endochondral bones

    Wendong Huang;Ung-il Chung;Henry M. Kronenberg;Benoit de Crombrugghe

  • The parathyroid hormone/parathyroid hormone-related peptide receptor coordinates endochondral bone development by directly controlling chondrocyte differentiation

    Ung-il Chung;Beate Lanske;Kaechoong Lee;En Li

  • Akt1 in Osteoblasts and Osteoclasts Controls Bone Remodeling

    Naohiro Kawamura;Fumitaka Kugimiya;Yasushi Oshima;Shinsuke Ohba

  • Cartilage tissue engineering using human auricular chondrocytes embedded in different hydrogel materials

    Hisayo Yamaoka;Hirotaka Asato;Toru Ogasawara;Satoru Nishizawa

  • Icariin induces osteogenic differentiation in vitro in a BMP- and Runx2-dependent manner.

    Jiyuan Zhao;Shinsuke Ohba;Masashige Shinkai;Ung-il Chung

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Hiroshi Kawaguchi University of Tokyo
Takamasa Sakai
Takamasa Sakai University of Tokyo
Kozo Nakamura
Kozo Nakamura Shinshu University
Mitsuhiro Shibayama
Mitsuhiro Shibayama Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society
Sakae Tanaka
Sakae Tanaka University of Tokyo
Henry M. Kronenberg
Henry M. Kronenberg Harvard University
Keiji Itaka
Keiji Itaka Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Manabu Mochizuki
Manabu Mochizuki Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Kazunori Kataoka
Kazunori Kataoka University of Tokyo
Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Hiromitsu Nakauchi Stanford University

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