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Eunyoung Choi, PhD (PI)
Dr. Choi has broad research training experiences in stem/progenitor cell biology and gastric cancer biology. She was a recipient of two awards in 2017, DOD Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Career Development Award and Debbie’s Dream Foundation-AACR Career Development Award for Gastric Cancer Research, and Certificates of Recognition for Scientific Accomplishment as an Early Stage Investigator, Digestive Disease Week (DDW/AGA in 2015 & 2018). She became a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in June 2017 and started her independent research in the Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
She has established a novel driver mouse model system and novel in vitro organoid model systems for metaplasia and dysplasia. Her group focuses on defining 1) functional roles and mechanisms of Kras activation, as a critical oncogenic driver and 2) de novo cancer stem cell plasticity leading the carcinogenic process of dysplasia to adenocarcinoma, which is a clear knowledge gap in gastric cancer development.
: 10435F MRB4
2213 Garland Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232: 10445 MRB4
2213 Garland Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232- : eunyoung.choi@vumc.org
- : 615-322-0775
