Eunyoung Choi, PhD
Associate professor, Surgery
Associate professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Faculty member, Epithelial Biology Center
Faculty member, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology (VCSCB)
Faculty member, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)
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10435F MRB4
2213 Garland Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232 - :
10445 MRB4
2213 Garland Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232
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.