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Recognition

Awards & Achievements

A selection of international awards, prizes, and scholarships recognising Dr Choi's clinical research and academic contributions.

  • 2013 – 2016

    Professor Derek Willoughby Clinician Scientist Award ($351,835)

    Highly competitive clinical research fellowship to undertake a fully funded PhD at Queen Mary University of London.

  • 2016

    Y-ECCO Congress Abstract Award

    A prestigious award given only to the top 5 presenters at the 11th Congress of European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  • 2015, 2016

    Best Abstract — ECCO Congress

    Selected as one of the top 25 abstracts (out of >1,100) and presented at the plenary sessions in the 10th (Barcelona, Spain) and 11th (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ECCO Congress.

  • 2015

    John Nicholls Prize for Research

    A prestigious award given to the best researcher of the year at St Mark's Hospital. Frontiers in Intestinal and Colorectal Disease Congress, St Mark's Hospital, UK.

  • 2015, 2017

    Nominated as Notable Korean Scientist

    A title awarded to the most prominent researchers of South Korean heritage by the Biological Research Information Centre (BRIC), South Korea.

  • 2014, 2015

    Morti L. Kamla Rustgi International Travel Award ($750)

    Awarded only to two international clinicians worldwide to present abstracts at Digestive Disease Week (DDW), USA. Winner for two consecutive years.

  • 2014, 2015

    Best of Digestive Diseases Week in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Finalist for two consecutive years. Cornerstones Health, DDW, USA.

  • 2014

    Oral Free Paper Prize — UEGW

    Selected as the best presentation in the colitis and malignancy forum at United European Gastroenterology Week (UEGW), Vienna, Austria.

  • 2014

    United European Gastroenterology Week Travel Grant ($1,350)

    To present an abstract at the UEGW, Vienna, Austria.

  • 2010

    Merit in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

    MBBS finals, Imperial College London.

  • 2004

    Merit in Bioinformatics MSc

    Imperial College London.

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