Connie Wai Hong Woo PhD
Biotechnology, Clinical Pharmacology
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Dr. Connie Woo obtained her Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy from the Ohio State University in United States, and registered as a pharmacist in Canada and Hong Kong. She completed her MPhil in pharmacology at the University of Hong Kong and PhD in physiology at University of Manitoba in Canada. She then received her postdoctoral training at Division Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University in New York City, Her research work has been published in several top-ranked journals including Nature Cell Biology. She joined the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKU in Nov 2013.
Her publications are as follows:
Woo CW, Kutzler L, Kimball SR, Tabas I. Toll-like receptor activation suppresses endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced CHOP through activation of eIF2B. Nat Cell Biol. 2012; 14: 192-200.
Woo CW, Cui D, Arellano J, Dorweiler B, Harding H, Fitzgerald KA, Ron D, Tabas I. Adaptive suppression of the ATF4-CHOP branch of the unfolded protein response by toll-like receptor signalling. Nat Cell Biol. 2009; 11: 1473-1480.
Woo CW, Siow YL, O K. Homocysteine induces monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression in hepatocytes mediated via AP-1 activation. J Biol Chem. 2008; 283: 1282-1292.
Woo CW, Siow YL, O K: Homocysteine Activates cAMP-response Element Binding Protein in HepG2 through cAMP/PKA Signaling Pathway. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006, 26: 1043-1050.
Richards MR, Black AS, Bonnet DJ, Barish GD, Woo CW, Tabas I, Curtiss LK, Tobias PS. The LPS2 Mutation in TRIF is Atheroprotective in Hyperlipidemic LDL Receptor Knockout Mice. Innate Immun. 2013;19: 20-29.
Ai D, Baez JM, Jiang H, Conlon DM, Hernandez-Ono A, Frank-Kamenetsky M, Milstein S, Fitzgerald K, Murphy AJ, Woo CW, Strong A, Ginsberg HN, Tabas I, Rader DJ, Tall AR. The regulation of hepatic sortilin-1 in obese mice by activation of mTORC1 and ER stress. J Clin Invest. 2012; 122: 1677-87.
Nawrocki AR, Hofmann SM, Teupser D, Basford JE, Durand JL, Jelicks LA, Woo CW, Kuriakose G, Factor SM, Tanowitz HB, Hui DY, Tabas I, Scherer PE. Lack of Association between Adiponectin Levels and Atherosclerosis in Mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2010; 30: 1159-65.
Her publications are as follows:
Woo CW, Kutzler L, Kimball SR, Tabas I. Toll-like receptor activation suppresses endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced CHOP through activation of eIF2B. Nat Cell Biol. 2012; 14: 192-200.
Woo CW, Cui D, Arellano J, Dorweiler B, Harding H, Fitzgerald KA, Ron D, Tabas I. Adaptive suppression of the ATF4-CHOP branch of the unfolded protein response by toll-like receptor signalling. Nat Cell Biol. 2009; 11: 1473-1480.
Woo CW, Siow YL, O K. Homocysteine induces monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression in hepatocytes mediated via AP-1 activation. J Biol Chem. 2008; 283: 1282-1292.
Woo CW, Siow YL, O K: Homocysteine Activates cAMP-response Element Binding Protein in HepG2 through cAMP/PKA Signaling Pathway. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006, 26: 1043-1050.
Richards MR, Black AS, Bonnet DJ, Barish GD, Woo CW, Tabas I, Curtiss LK, Tobias PS. The LPS2 Mutation in TRIF is Atheroprotective in Hyperlipidemic LDL Receptor Knockout Mice. Innate Immun. 2013;19: 20-29.
Ai D, Baez JM, Jiang H, Conlon DM, Hernandez-Ono A, Frank-Kamenetsky M, Milstein S, Fitzgerald K, Murphy AJ, Woo CW, Strong A, Ginsberg HN, Tabas I, Rader DJ, Tall AR. The regulation of hepatic sortilin-1 in obese mice by activation of mTORC1 and ER stress. J Clin Invest. 2012; 122: 1677-87.
Nawrocki AR, Hofmann SM, Teupser D, Basford JE, Durand JL, Jelicks LA, Woo CW, Kuriakose G, Factor SM, Tanowitz HB, Hui DY, Tabas I, Scherer PE. Lack of Association between Adiponectin Levels and Atherosclerosis in Mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2010; 30: 1159-65.
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