Sun-Mi Choi,
MD, PhD UCSD Allergy/Immunology Faculty |
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Sun-Mi grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and
obtained Bachelor’s degree with dual majors in
Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular genetics and
Neuroscience at UCLA. She worked as an
undergraduate in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard Rome
characterizing the ribonucleoprotein, Vaults.
After obtaining a Master of Science degree in Biological
Chemistry at UCLA, she started a MD/PhD program at
LSUHSC in New Orleans where she worked with Dr. Jay
Kolls on deciphering the host immune responses to MRSA
pneumonia. She has recently moved to San Diego for
her Allergy Immunology fellowship after completing her
Pediatric residency at Washington University’s St. Louis
Children’s Hospital, and her fellowship in
Allergy-Immunology at UC San Diego, where she has
continued on the faculty Sun-Mi’s research is
focused on delineating the role of Staphylococcus
aureus in the pathogenesis of chronic
rhinosinusitis. One hypothesis she have has to
test is that S. aureus stimulates nasal
epithelial production of Reg3γ, which seeks to targets
Gram+ bacteria by binding the peptidoglycan layer, along
with allergy-associated cytokine thymic stromal
lymphopoietin (TSLP) and IL-33 that cause
hyperproduction of mucins Muc5B and Muc5Ac and a chronic
inflammatory state involving neutrophils and aberrantly
activated T cells. She is supported by the UCSD
K12 Biomedical Scientist Career Development Program in
Glycosciences. |
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