Yoojin Choi
Yoojin Choi is a Canadian medical student based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Education
Choi received an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University and a PhD in Immunology from the University of Toronto. During her graduate studies, Yoojin received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canada Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral program, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship/Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology program.
She is now a medical student at the University of British Columbia.
Career and Affiliations
Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table
Choi is a member of the secretariat of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.1)
Research
Choi has conducted research funded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a World Health Organization agency funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), the French National Cancer Institute, World Cancer Research Fund International, Cancer Research UK and the European Commission.2) 3)
She also worked on a study funded by Ontario Genomics, Canadian Cancer Society, and the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.4)
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About Us. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved April 28, 2022, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/
2)
Wei, F., Gaisa, M. M., D’Souza, G., Xia, N., Giuliano, A. R., Hawes, S. E., Gao, L., Cheng, S.-H., Donà, M. G., Goldstone, S. E., Schim van der Loeff, M. F., Neukam, K., Meites, E., Poynten, I. M., Dai, J., Combes, J.-D., Wieland, U., Burgos, J., Wilkin, T. J., & Hernandez, A. L. (2021). Epidemiology of anal human papillomavirus infection and high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in 29 900 men according to HIV status, sexuality, and age: a collaborative pooled analysis of 64 studies. The Lancet. HIV, 8(9), e531–e543. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00108-9
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Funding – IARC. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://archive.ph/YVH4M
4)
Cho, M. Y., Oliva, M., Spreafico, A., Chen, B., Wei, X., Choi, Y., Kaul, R., Siu, L. L., Coburn, B., & Schneeberger, P. H. H. (2021). Two-Target Quantitative PCR To Predict Library Composition for Shallow Shotgun Sequencing. MSystems, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00552-21