Riley Choi, BA
Medical Student
I am a rising second-year medical student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. I am very excited to work in the Tsai Lab at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles during the summer! I was born and raised in Korea and moved to the U.S. when I was eleven. I received my BA in Biochemistry from Wellesley College in 2022. During college, I worked with Dr. Pai and Dr. Whangbo studying the outcomes of hematopoietic stem cell transplants in patients with genetic immune disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After graduating, I worked as a research assistant in the Bandopadhayay Lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute studying genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of resistance in brain tumors, specifically medulloblastoma and glioblastoma. At UPenn, I am involved in a clinical research project studying the risk of a second breast cancer in patients with atypical lobular hyperplasia and an invasive primary breast cancer.