ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2023
The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.
About the awardee
John Yongjoon Choi, MD is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a transplant nephrologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He completed his medical training at SUNY Upstate Medical University in 2014 followed by an internal medicine residency at the University of Rochester, NY. In 2017, he joined the Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital Joint nephrology fellowship, and upon completion, he further pursued additional training in kidney transplantation to become a UNOS-certified transplant nephrologist.
Dr. Choi received the NIH T32 training Award to study transplant immunology under Dr. Jamil Azzi at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dr. Harvey Cantor at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Upon completion of T32 award, he continued additional postdoctoral training with the support from the American Society of Transplantation Basic Research Fellowship. Dr. Choi has published over 12 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals like PNAS, Science Translational Medicine, and Scientific Reports, and his research has been presented at multiple national society meetings. His current research activity is supported by the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Choi's research focuses on developing novel tolerogenic therapeutics using antigen-specific regulatory T cells.