January 2018
Our January Ambassador of the Month is Bea Choi, a Senior Scientist at Immunocore, United Kingdom. Bea has played an active role as an Immunopaedia ambassador by contributing to the Immunopaedia Breaking News page. Thank you Bea for all your hard work.
Name: Bea Choi
Position: Senior Scientist, Preclinical Team in Infectious Diseases
Research Institute: Immunocore
Research interests: Neglected tropical diseases, host-pathogen interactions, pathogen evasion of the host immune response
Why I love immunology: What’s not to love?!! Your body is amazing and immunology is a massive part of life and living!!
If I wasn’t an immunologist I would be: I love participating in Public Engagement work when I have the opportunity, so I would like to think I could be in that sector.
Tips for young people who want to enter the field of immunology: Try to stay current, be flexible and be happy. Research can evolve quite fast sometimes (and sometimes ironically, not fast enough), so you need to keep on top of the literature, current programmes and clinical trials and be flexible to evolve. But most importantly, be happy! If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, it really shows.
What being an Immunopaedia Ambassador means to me: Being part of such an international family that have the same focus in promoting Immunology without Borders has been amazing!! I love meeting people and this has been such a highlight and honor to be working with Immunopaedia.
How I have contributed to Immunopaedia so far: I contributed to and participated in IUIS-FAIS Immuno-Ethiopia, I’ve been promoting Immunopaedia via Twitter (@Beishmania), contributed to a Breaking News article based on a conference called Infectious Disease Week and this year I will be promoting Immunopaedia as part of a STEM programme through work with schools in the UK.
You can get in touch with me by: LinkedIn or Twitter @Beishmania