🎓 EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Medicine | Kyung Hee University | 2025 

  • Degree Recipient Representative & Outstanding Academic Achievement

  • Advisor: Sun Kwang Kim, KMD, PhD

  • Thesis: Neuromodulation Strategies Targeting CSF Circulation and Astrocytic Calcium Signaling

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) | Kyung Hee University | 2021 

  • Graduated Cum Laude

• M.S. in Medicine | Kyung Hee University | 2019 

  • Best Research Award

  • Advisor: Sun Kwang Kim, KMD, PhD & Byung-Il Min, MD, KMD, PhD

• Doctor of Korean Medicine (KMD) | Kyung Hee University | 2017 

  • Professional undergraduate degree in complementary and alternative medicine

🔬 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Research Professor | Kyung Hee University | 2025 – Present 

• Technical Research Personnel | 2021 – 2024 

Designated by the Korean government for advanced scientific research (Substitutive Military Service).

🏆 AWARDS & HONORS

• Young Investigator Award in Basic Medical Science | Korean Medical Association | 2025 

• Outstanding Academic Achievement Award | Kyung Hee University | 2025 

• Lab Visit Travel Bursary | ISCBFM (Visit to MGH, USA) | 2025 

• Young Investigator Best Award | Korean Physiology Society | 2024 

• Young Scientist Award | ICMART | 2024 

• Best Poster Award | Korea Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound | 2024 

• The Health Fellowship Foundation Scholarship | 2023 

• Best Research Award | Kyung Hee University | 2019 

• KIOM-URP Best Research Award | Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine | 2016 

📑 PUBLICATIONS

1. Seunghwan Choi, Hyunjin Shin, Seon Young Hyun, Geehoon Chung, Sun Kwang Kim, “STIM1-dependent calcium signaling in astrocytes controls glutamate accumulation and ischemic brain injury during acute stroke in mice”, Glia, 2026. 

2. Hyunjin Shin, Seunghwan Choi, Geehoon Chung, Sun Kwang Kim, “Analgesic effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on partial sciatic nerve ligation-induced neuropathic pain in mice via serotonergic pathways”, Molecular Brain, 2025. 

3. Seunghwan Choi, In Seon Baek, Kyungjoon Lee, Sun Kwang Kim, “Low-Frequency Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Facilitates Cerebrospinal Fluid Influx by Promoting Vasomotion”, The Korean Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology, 2025. 

4. Seunghwan Choi, Jeungeun Kum, Seon Young Hyun, Tae Young Park, Hyungmin Kim, Sun Kwang Kim, Jaeho Kim, “Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Stimulation Enhances Cerebrospinal Fluid Movement: Real-Time In Vivo Two-Photon and Widefield Imaging Evidence”, Brain Stimulation, 2024. 

5. In Seon Baek, Seunghwan Choi, Heera Yoon, Geehoon Chung, Sun Kwang Kim, “Analgesic effect of auricular vagus nerve stimulation on oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathic pain in a rodent model”, Experimental Neurobiology, 2024. 

6. Dong Cheol Jang, Seunghwan Choi, Geehoon Chung, Sun Kwang Kim, “Global cerebral ischemia induced depression accompanies alteration of neuronal excitability in the infralimbic cortex layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons”, Experimental Neurobiology, 2023. 

7. Seunghwan Choi, Dong Cheol Jang, Geehoon Chung, Sun Kwang Kim, “Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation enhances cerebrospinal fluid circulation and restores cognitive function in the rodent model of vascular cognitive impairment”, Cells, 2022. 

8. Seunghwan Choi, Hyeon Kyeong Chae, Ho Heo, Dae-Hyun Hahm, Woojin Kim, Sun Kwang Kim, “Analgesic Effect of Melittin on Oxaliplatin-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Rats”, Toxins, 2019. 

9. Woojin Kim, Yeongu Chung, Seunghwan Choi, Byung-Il Min, Sun Kwang Kim, “Duloxetine Protects against Oxaliplatin-Induced Neuropathic Pain and Spinal Neuron Hyperexcitability in Rodents”, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2017. 

10. Seunghwan Choi, Akihiro Yamada, Woojin Kim, Sun Kwang Kim, Hidemasa Furue, “Noradrenergic inhibition of spinal hyperexcitation elicited by cutaneous cold stimuli in rats with oxaliplatin-induced allodynia: electrophysiological and behavioral assessments”, Journal of Physiological Sciences, 2017. 

💡 PATENTS

• US Patent (US20250108201A1): Stimulus applying device 🇺🇸

• KR Patent (10-2022-0072656): Stimulation providing apparatus 🇰🇷