Johnny Hwang, MD, MS
CLINICAL FELLOW
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Alice Litman Moss Award in recognition of outstanding clinical care, scholarship and professionalism, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, 2024
• Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute Research Recognition Award for Pediatric Resident, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, 2022-2024
• Medical Student Research Scholarship in Cardiovascular Disease, American Heart Association, 2018

Education & Training

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• Internship and Residency Pediatrics UCLA 06/2024
• MD Medicine Temple University 06/2021
• MS Biology UCSD 12/2013
• BS Physiology and Neuroscience UCSD 09/2012

Grants and Projects

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• UCLA Pediatric Research Education Program in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Omics, NIH, 2023-2028

Publications (10)

Top publication keywords:
Immunity, InnateChromatinRNA, Long NoncodingStaphylococcusSmokeMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusLung DiseasesElectronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsPolycomb Repressive Complex 2Pneumonia, BacterialFibrillin-1Fibrillin-2Macrophages, AlveolarMarfan SyndromeSmoking

• High-Throughput Genomics Identify Novel FBN1/2 Variants in Severe Neonatal Marfan Syndrome and Congenital Heart Defects.
  International journal of molecular sciences 2024 Zodanu GKE, Hwang JH, Mehta Z, Sisniega C, Barsegian A, Kang X, Biniwale R, Si MS, Satou GM, Halnon N, Grody WW, Van Arsdell GS, Nelson SF, Touma M
• Mapping Chromatin Occupancy of Ppp1r1b-lncRNA Genome-Wide Using Chromatin Isolation by RNA Purification (ChIRP)-seq.
  Cells 2023 Hwang J, Kang X, Wolf C, Touma M
• Pulmonary artery diameter correlates with echocardiographic parameters of right ventricular dysfunction in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
  Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest Society 2023 O'Corragain O, Alashram R, Millio G, Vanchiere C, Hwang JH, Kumaran M, Dass C, Zhao H, Panero J, Lakhter V, Gupta R, Bashir R, Cohen G, Jimenez D, Criner G, Rali P
• Cigarette Smoke Exposure Promotes Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Induces Resistance to Neutrophil Killing.
  Infection and immunity 2020 Chien J, Hwang JH, Nilaad S, Masso-Silva JA, Jeong Ahn S, McEachern EK, Moshensky A, Byun MK, Crotty Alexander LE
• Electronic cigarette inhalation alters innate immunity and airway cytokines while increasing the virulence of colonizing bacteria.
  Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 2016 Hwang JH, Lyes M, Sladewski K, Enany S, McEachern E, Mathew DP, Das S, Moshensky A, Bapat S, Pride DT, Ongkeko WM, Crotty Alexander LE

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• Inflammatory Diseases of the Lung Induced by Conventional Cigarette Smoke: A Review.
  Chest 2015 Crotty Alexander LE, Shin S, Hwang JH
• Retargeting pre-existing human antibodies to a bacterial pathogen with an alpha-Gal conjugated aptamer.
  Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 2015 Kristian SA, Hwang JH, Hall B, Leire E, Iacomini J, Old R, Galili U, Roberts C, Mullis KB, Westby M, Nizet V
• Analysis of the effects of cigarette smoke on staphylococcal virulence phenotypes.
  Infection and immunity 2015 McEachern EK, Hwang JH, Sladewski KM, Nicatia S, Dewitz C, Mathew DP, Nizet V, Crotty Alexander LE
• Activation of the stress response in macrophages alters the M1/M2 balance by enhancing bacterial killing and IL-10 expression.
  Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 2014 Vega VL, Crotty Alexander LE, Charles W, Hwang JH, Nizet V, De Maio A
• Phenol soluble modulin (PSM) variants of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) captured using mass spectrometry-based molecular networking.
  Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 2014 Gonzalez DJ, Vuong L, Gonzalez IS, Keller N, McGrosso D, Hwang JH, Hung J, Zinkernagel A, Dixon JE, Dorrestein PC, Nizet V