{"entity":{"id":"christine-chung","kind":"person","name":"Christine H. Chung","aka":[],"tldr":"Head and neck oncologist who helped define the genomic subtypes of HPV-positive and HPV-negative disease.","summary":"Christine H. Chung is Chair of the Department of Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center. She is a head and neck oncologist known for helping define the genomic subtypes of HPV-positive and HPV-negative disease, including as a co-author of The Cancer Genome Atlas analyses of head and neck cancer. Her selected paper reports the comprehensive genomic characterisation of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. She now leads head and neck oncology at Moffitt and runs immunotherapy and treatment de-escalation trials.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Moffitt profile","url":"https://www.moffitt.org/providers/christine-chung/"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Chung%20CH%5BAuthor%5D"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["head-and-neck"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["moffitt"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Chair, Department of Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology","institutionId":"moffitt","specialisms":["Head and neck cancer","HPV-associated cancer","Genomics"],"profiles":[{"label":"Moffitt profile","url":"https://www.moffitt.org/providers/christine-chung/"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Chung%20CH%5BAuthor%5D"}],"papers":[{"title":"Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas","journal":"Nature","year":2015,"url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14129","doi":"10.1038/nature14129"}]},"route":"/people/christine-chung/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"head-and-neck","kind":"cancer","name":"Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma","route":"/cancers/head-and-neck/"}],"institution":[{"id":"moffitt","kind":"institution","name":"Moffitt Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/moffitt/"}]}}