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Hannah is a new research assistant in our lab.  She will work on our transgenic animals!… Read More

This NCI program (funded through RFA-CA-21-026/RFA-CA-21-027) is designed to examine and define the earliest biological changes in malignant transformation. It builds on recent molecular classifications of gastroesophageal cancers, understanding of their cancer genomics, and advances in stem cell research to decipher how these cancers initially evolve at the cellular… Read More

We welcome Youngwon, a new postdoc in the lab! He will investigate molecular mechanisms driving cell lineage diversification and evolution of dysplasia to adenocarcinoma. Read More

The Choi lab is really excited to start a brand new, second, R01 in September!  We want more postdocs! If anyone is interested in cell of origin of gastric cancer or metaplastic cell plasticity, please… Read More

Alexis successfully passed her oral qualifying exam! Way to go!… Read More

Dysplastic stem cell plasticity functions as a driving force for neoplastic transformation of pre-cancerous gastric mucosa https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(22)00626-6/fulltext https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35700772/  … Read More

Our latest international collaborative work on the function of p57Kip2 in chief cell plasticity is just out in Cell Stem Cell. https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(22)00154-0  … Read More

  https://gastro.org/news/the-aga-research-foundation-awards-2-56-million-in-research-funding/    … Read More

Halee, We are excited to have you join our lab!  Welcome!!!… Read More

https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences/defining-the-origin-of-gastric-metaplastic-cells/  … Read More