PEOPLE
PI
Eunyoung Choi, PhD (PI)
Associate professor, Surgery
Associate professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Naji N. Abumrad Chair in Surgical Sciences
Faculty member, Epithelial Biology Center
Faculty member, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology (VCSCB)
Faculty member, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)
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 received the 2025 AGA Young Investigator Award in Basic Science. She joined a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2017. She received tenure as an Associate Professor in 2023 and was appointed as an endowed chair in the Section of Surgical Sciences in 2025. She holds the inaugural Naji N. Abumrad Chair in Surgical Sciences.
: 10435F MRB4
2213 Garland Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232: 10445 MRB4
2213 Garland Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232- : eunyoung.choi@vumc.org
- : 615-322-0775
Current Members
Former Members
Hyesung Kim, PhD
Visiting Scholar, Department of Surgery / Epithelial Biology Center
Assistant Professor (Current), School of Medicine / Jeju University / South Korea
Jimin Min, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Surgery / Epithelial Biology Center
Research Instructor, Department of Pathology / NYU
Yoonkyung Won, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Surgery / Epithelial Biology Center
Assistant Professor (Current), School of Dentistry / Chonnam National University / South Korea