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Vivian Hwa, PhD

  • Basic Research Director, Cincinnati Center for Growth Disorders
  • Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

BS: University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

PhD: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

Research Areas

Endocrinology

Publications

Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 5B Deficiency-associated Lung Disease. Krone, KA; Foley, CL; Fishman, MP; Vargas, SO; Forbes, LR; Vece, TJ; Al-Herz, W; Carey, B; Pai, SY; Hwa, V; et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2022; 205:1245-1250.

Treatment of Short Stature in Aggrecan-deficient Patients With Recombinant Human Growth Hormone: 1-Year Response. Muthuvel, G; Dauber, A; Alexandrou, E; Tyzinski, L; Andrew, M; Hwa, V; Backeljauw, P. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2022; 107:e2103-e2109.

STAT5B restrains human B-cell differentiation to maintain humoral immune homeostasis. Pelham, SJ; Caldirola, MS; Avery, DT; Mackie, J; Rao, G; Gothe, F; Peters, TJ; Guerin, A; Neumann, D; Vokurkova, D; et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2022.

Clinical phenotype and musculoskeletal characteristics of patients with aggrecan deficiency. Alexandrou, E; Dauber, A; Tyzinski, L; Hwa, V; Andrew, M; Kim, H; Elangovan, S; Gubanich, P; Taylor-Haas, JA; Paterno, M; et al. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A. 2022; 188:1193-1203.

Growth Hormone Receptor (Ghr) 6ω Pseudoexon Activation: A Novel Cause Of Severe Growth Hormone Insensitivity (Ghi). Cottrell, E; Maharaj, A; Williams, J; Chatterjee, S; Cirillo, G; Miraglia Del Giudice, E; Festa, A; Palumbo, S; Capalbo, D; Salerno, M; et al. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2022.

Growth Hormone Receptor (GHR) 6Ω Pseudoexon Activation: a Novel Cause of Severe Growth Hormone Insensitivity. Cottrell, E; Maharaj, A; Williams, J; Chatterjee, S; Cirillo, G; Miraglia Del Giudice, E; Festa, A; Palumbo, S; Capalbo, D; Salerno, M; et al. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2021.

A rare heterozygous IGFI variant causing postnatal growth failure and offering novel insights into IGF-I physiology. Cottrell, E; Chatterjee, S; Hwa, V; Storr, HL. 2021.

Genetic causes of growth hormone insensitivity beyond GHR. Hwa, V; Fujimoto, M; Zhu, G; Gao, W; Foley, C; Kumbaji, M; Rosenfeld, RG. Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. 2021; 22:43-58.

Developmental Adaptive Immune Defects Associated with STAT5B Deficiency in Three Young Siblings. Foley, CL; Al Remeithi, SS; Towe, CT; Dauber, A; Backeljauw, PF; Tyzinski, L; Kumar, AR; Hwa, V. Journal of Clinical Immunology. 2021; 41:136-146.

Human growth disorders associated with impaired GH action: Defects in STAT5B and JAK2. Hwa, V. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 2021; 519.