Jaehyuk Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Inaugural Director, Center for Cellular Therapies and Cancer Immunology; Vice Chair for Translational Research and Innovation in Dermatology.
People
Lab Members
Meet the Choi Lab team members, trainees, research staff, and alumni.
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researchers
Postdoctoral Researchers
Filio Karakousi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Autoimmune disease and pathogenic immune-cell programs.
John Devany
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
T cell engineering, CAR-T biology, and translational immunotherapy.
Zhixin “Jack” Li
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Gamma delta T-cell biology and translational immunology.
Yuying Ma
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Gamma delta T-cell biology and disease mechanisms.
Xiaolei Sun
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cancer immunology, T-cell biology, and translational research.
Takehiro Tozuka
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Overcoming resistance to cancer immunotherapy and developing cellular therapies.
Xuefei Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Single-cell, spatial, and multi-omics approaches to tumor microenvironments.
Chansik Yoon
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
CAR-T engineering and immune-cell therapy.
Yiyang Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Receptor screening and immune-cell engineering.
Minki Kim
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Gamma delta lymphoma and T-cell biology.
Xiaoquan Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Inflammation, cGAS-STING biology, and therapeutic target discovery.
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Jack Li
M.D./Ph.D. Student
Engineering adoptive cell therapies for solid tumors and other immunotherapy-resistant malignancies.
Lucy Liu
Graduate Student
Improving cell therapies for solid tumors.
Brandon Hancock
Graduate Student
Lupus T cells and immune-cell biology.
Brooke Anderson
Graduate Student
Gamma delta lymphoma and translational immunology.
Research Staff
Research Staff
Anna Emery
Assistant Director, Department Operations
Katy Summers
Program Coordinator
Maria Figueroa-Rosado
Lab Coordinator
Aiyada Fukushima
Research Technician II
Caitie Kuriakose
Research Technician II
Suk Jin Son
Research Technician II
Amy Song
Research Technician II
Anju Joseph
Research Associate
Jay Friedman
Staff Scientist
Jerry Yao
Computational Biologist
Lab Alumni
Alumni and Current Positions
Former trainees and affiliates of the Choi Lab, listed from most recent to earlier affiliations.
This compact directory lists each person’s title while affiliated with the Choi Lab, years of affiliation when available, and current role or institution when confirmed.
38 alumni| Name | Former Choi Lab role | Years | Current role / institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Daniels | MSTP Student | 2023–2026 | Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford University Translational Investigator Program |
| Jeonghyeon Cha | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 2022–2026 | — |
| Sunghee Hwang | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 2021–2026 | — |
| Rohin Sagar | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2024–2025 | Northwestern University |
| Paola Neuville-Aguilar | Medical Student | 2024–2025 | Northwestern University |
| Qiuyin Ren | MSTP Student | 2023–2025 | Resident, Northwestern |
| Kathleen Cheng | MSTP Student | 2023–2025 | Resident, Northwestern |
| Caroline Bell | Graduate Student | 2023–2025 | Biomedical PhD Student, University of Chicago |
| Zachary Reinstein | MSTP Student | 2022–2025 | Resident, Northwestern |
| Elizabeth Lakoma | Research Assistant | 2022–2025 | Research Assistant, Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern |
| Calvin Spencer Law | Graduate Student | 2022–2025 | Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. |
| Amy Wang | Research Assistant | 2023–2024 | MSTP Student, UNC Chapel Hill |
| Yue Zhang | Medical Student | 2022–2024 | Resident Physician, Dermatology, Indiana University School of Medicine |
| Arundhati Pillai | Research Technician | 2022–2024 | Research Assistant, University of Chicago |
| Julia Yescas | Graduate Student | 2021–2024 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern |
| Hongyu Liu | Bioinformatics Analyst | 2022–2023 | — |
| Spencer Ng | Dermatology Resident | 2021–2023 | Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine |
| Jasen Jackson | Research Technician | 2021–2022 | MSTP Student, Washington University School of Medicine |
| Yujin Lee | Research Technician | 2020–2022 | PhD Student, Northwestern University |
| Caroline Snowden | Medical Student | 2020–2022 | Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania |
| Kevin Qiu | Research Technician | 2018–2022 | Medical Student, University of Virginia |
| Jean Lin | MSTP Student | 2018–2022 | Rheumatologist, Cleveland Clinic |
| Kewei Xu | Master’s Student | 2020–2021 | — |
| Edwin Qiu | Research Technician | 2020–2021 | Medical Student, Boston University |
| Anthony Gacita | MSTP Student | 2020–2021 | Pediatric Resident, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Katie Lee | Medical Student | 2019–2021 | Medical Student, University of Illinois Chicago |
| Kimberly Ringbloom | Research Technician | 2018–2021 | — |
| Xiaolong “Alan” Zhou | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 2017–2021 | Associate Professor of Dermatology, Northwestern |
| Yuan Qian | Postdoctoral Researcher | 2016–2021 | Researcher, T cell biology / biomaterials, InnoCare Pharma |
| Joonhee Park | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2015–2020 | Research Scientist, Amgen |
| Yohan Byun | Undergraduate Researcher | 2017–2019 | Medical Student, Seoul National University |
| Melanie Daulton | Medical Student Thesis | 2015–2019 | Comprehensive Ophthalmology, UCLA Health |
| Jingyi Yang | Bioinformaticist | 2016–2018 | Bioinformaticist, China |
| Alex Wenzel | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015–2018 | Bioinformatics Graduate Student, UCSD |
| James Whang | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015–2017 | Software Engineer, Microsoft |
| Victoria Chu | Research Technician | — | — |
| Kristy Tefft | Pre-Doctoral Researcher | — | Internal Medicine Resident, New York Medical College |
| Ahmed Usman, MBBS | Research Fellow | — | Family Medicine Resident, Mercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois |