Clinic Phone Number: 612-626-9879
Office Mail:
#107
Lions Research Building
University of Minnesota
2001 6th Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: juhnx001@tc.umn.edu
Undergraduate Education: Kyung-pook University, Taegu, Korea
Medical School: Kyung-pook University
Graduate School:
Seoul National University
University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Fellowship:
International Atomic Energy Fellowship, University of Bologna, Italy
NIH Fogarty Senior Fellowship, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Year started in department: 1967
Research Interests: Dr. Juhn is interested in four clinical areas namely, pathogenesis of otitis media, Meneire’s disease, hearing dysfunction in aging, and molecular markers of the progression and metastasis of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. As director of the Auditory Biochemistry Laboratory, Dr. Juhn has focused his efforts in to the basic mechanisms underlying these disease entities.
There are currently three areas of on-going research in the Auditory Biochemistry Laboratory:
1. Inner Ear: The pathogenesis of Meneire’s disease; effect of stress hormones on the inner ear function.; the blood labyrinth barrier (BLB); inner ear fluid dynamics by microdialysis; mechanisms of inner ear homeostasis; hearing dysfunction in aging; the role of nitric oxide (NO) in auditory dysfunction in aging.
2. Middle Ear: Mucin gene expression in otitis media and the role of nitric oxide in the pathogenesis of otitis media.
3. Head and Neck Cancer: Fibroblast growth factor binding protein (FGF-BP) and angiogenesis – biomarkers of head and neck cancer.
Juhn SK, Jung TKK, Lin J, Rhee CK: Effects of inflammatory mediators on middle ear pathology and on inner ear function. Annals New York Academy of Sciences 830:130-142, 1997.
Juhn SK, Hong KM, Park H, Kim CS, Chun KM, Giebink GS: The level of RANTES in human middle ear effusion. In: Proceedings of the Third Extraordinary Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media; M Tos, J Thomsen, V. Balle (eds), Kugler Publications, pp. 229-235, 1999.
Juhn SK, Li W, Kim JY, Javel E, Levine S, Odland RM: Effect of stress-related hormones on inner ear fluid homeostasis and function. Am J Otology 20:800-806, 1999.
Li W, Lin J, Adams GL, Juhn SK: Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in middle ear epithelial cells by IL-1beta and TNF-alpha. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol, 55: 91-98. 2000.
Juhn SK, Hunter B, Odland, R: Blood-labyrinth barrier and inner ear fluid dynamics. Int J of Tinnitus. In press 2001.