Supporting Staff
Dr Vic SUN
Scientific Officer
B.Sc., M.Phil. (CUHK), Ph.D. (HKPolyU)
- ST815
- 3400 3468
- vichome.sun@polyu.edu.hk
Biography
Dr Vic K.T. Sun completed his BSc (Hons.) degree in Biochemistry and MPhil degree in Orthopaedics and Traumatology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He pursued his PhD degree in Rehabilitation Sciences from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, during which he worked on skeletal muscle regeneration in physiological and pathological contexts. As a visiting researcher in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, he obtained training of single muscle fiber isolation and the physiology assessments, which are indispensable techniques in studying skeletal muscle cell biology and physiology. Vic’s research interests include i) understanding the mechanism of skeletal muscle aging, exercise, injury, regeneration and disease, ii) myokinome of skeletal muscle, and iii) cross-talk mechanisms of skeletal muscle with organs, such as brain and adipose tissue, in exercise and diseases. He is experienced in animal and cell culture experiments, Ca2+ imaging, mass spectrometry-based proteomics and ex vivo muscle force measurement.
Research Interests
Research Output
- Sun, K.-T., Cheung, K. K., Au, S. W. N., Yeung, S. S., and Yeung, E. W. (2018). Overexpression of Mechano-Growth Factor Modulates Inflammatory Cytokine Expression and Macrophage Resolution in Skeletal Muscle Injury. Front Physiol 9:999. doi:10.3389/fphys.2018.00999.
- Yeung, E. W., Cheung, K.-K., and Sun, K.-T. (2017). “Biological Role of TRPC1 in Myogenesis, Regeneration, and Disease,” in The Plasticity of Skeletal Muscle, ed. K. Sakuma (Singapore: Springer Singapore), 211–230. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-3292-9.
- Llano-Diez, M., Cheng, A. J., Jonsson, W., Ivarsson, N., Westerblad, H., Sun, V., Cacciani, N., Larsson, L. and Bruton, J. (2016). Impaired Ca(2+) release contributes to muscle weakness in a rat model of critical illness myopathy. Crit Care 20, 254. doi:10.1186/s13054-016-1417-z.
- Sun, K. T., Leung, K. S., Siu, P. M. F., Qin, L., and Cheung, W. H. (2015). Differential effects of low-magnitude high-frequency vibration on reloading hind-limb soleus and gastrocnemius medialis muscles in 28-day tail-suspended rats. J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact 15, 316–24.
