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Hyunjung Oh, Ph.D.

Research Professor

Biography

Hyunjung Oh joined the lab in 2025 and studies how the brain changes with age and in psychiatric disorders such as depression. Earlier work, in human brain tissue and in mice, examined age-related changes in gene expression and DNA methylation in the frontal cortex, the role of BDNF and of inhibitory (GABA) neurons, and the effects of chronic stress. Recent papers cover blood markers of damage to the blood–brain barrier and the choroid plexus, how vitronectin affects the oligomerization of plasma amyloid-β, and behavioral and molecular changes after chronic stress in mice.

Before Gachon, Hyunjung Oh was a postdoctoral fellow and then a staff scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto (2015–2021), and worked in R&D at PeopleBio in Korea (2003–2009 and 2021–2025, most recently as principal scientist).

Research interests

  • Molecular brain aging

Research areas

Education

DegreeInstitutionYear
Ph.D., NeurobiologyUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA2015
M.S., BiologyYonsei University, South Korea2003
B.S., BiologyYonsei University, South Korea2001

First-author publications

15 publications

Updated automatically from the lab's ORCID records.

2026

  1. Hyunjung Oh, Hongju Kim, Hojin Kang, Dohyeon Kwon, Leon French, Young Ho Park, Young Chul Youn, Seong Soo An, SangYun Kim, Sungmin Kang

    Systemic proteomic and organ aging signatures associated with plasma Aβ oligomerization in a Korean cohort: a cross-sectional study

    Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 18:1620991

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2022

  1. Hyunjung Oh, Dwight F. Newton, David A. Lewis, Etienne L. Sibille

    Lower Levels of GABAergic Function Markers in Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone-Expressing Neurons in the sgACC of Human Subjects With Depression

    Frontiers in Psychiatry 13:827972

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2021

  1. Hyunjung Oh, Thomas D. Prévot, Dwight F. Newton, Etienne L. Sibille

    From serendipity to rational drug design in brain disorders: in silico, in vitro, and in vivo approaches

    Current Opinion in Pharmacology 60:177–182

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2018

  1. Hyunjung Oh, Sean C. Piantadosi, Brad R. Rocco, David A. Lewis, Simon C. Watkins, Etienne L. Sibille

    The Role of Dendritic Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Transcripts on Altered Inhibitory Circuitry in Depression

    Biological Psychiatry 85(6):517–526

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2016

  1. Hyunjung Oh, David A. Lewis, Etienne L. Sibille

    The Role of BDNF in Age-Dependent Changes of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Markers in the Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Neuropsychopharmacology 41(13):3080–3091

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2015

  1. Hyunjung Oh

    THE ROLE OF DENDRITIC BDNF TRANSCRIPTS ON ALTERED INHIBITORY CIRCUITRY IN AGING AND DEPRESSION

    D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh)

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  2. Hyunjung Oh, Kim Si Eun

    Study of the theme analysis in Japanese Textbooks of Middle school -On the basic communication expressions for four Language skills-

    :221–239

  3. Hyunjung Oh, S Piantadosi, E Sibille

    Expression Changes of Dendritic-targeting BDNF Transcripts and SST in the Frontal Cortex of Mice Submitted to Chronic Mild Stress

    BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY 77(9):411S-411S

2014

  1. Hyunjung Oh, E Sibille

    Predicting the Link Between BDNF and Dendritic-targeting GABA Interneurons through Gene Coexpression Network Analysis

    BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY 75(9):317S-317S

2010

  1. Hyunjung Oh

    연체수식어의 어순을 통해 본 문학작품의 특징 -『치인의 사랑』과 『설국』을 비교대상으로-

    Japanese Cultural Studies null(34):257–274

    DOI

  2. Hyunjung Oh

    A Study on Word Order in 'Love For An Idiot'

    Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 72(1):197–217

    DOI

2009

  1. Hyunjung Oh

    A Study on Word Order : Focuced on the Three on More Modifiers

    Journal of Japanese Studies null(42):325–341

    DOI

2006

  1. Hyunjung Oh

    A Study on the Word Order of Adjectival Modifier in Japanese and Korean Language

    :111–130

2005

  1. Hyunjung Oh

    A Study on the Word order in Properties of Noun

    :93–104

  2. Hyunjung Oh

    A study on the word order of Japanese adjectives

    Foreign Languages Education 12(2):345–356