Gloria B. Choi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SFARI Investigator Website

Gloria Choi is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, where she holds the Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professorship. She is also an investigator in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

Choi received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), where she studied with David Anderson. Following her doctoral studies, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Richard Axel at Columbia University.

Funded Projects

Elucidating mechanisms underlying fever-associated rescue of behavioral phenotypes relevant to autism

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Research

Delineating neural circuits underlying maternal immune activated autism-like behaviors in mice

Awarded: 2017
Award Type: Pilot

SFARI Funded Publications

IL-17a promotes sociability in mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders. Reed M.D. , Yim Y.S., Wimmer R.D., , Kim H., Ryu C., Welch G.M., Andina M., King H.O., Waisman A., Halassa M., Huh J., Choi G. B.

Research Highlight

Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring. Kim S., Kim H., Yim Y.S., Ha S., Atarashi K., Tan T.G., Longman R.S., Honda K., Littman D., Choi G. B., Huh J.

Research Highlight

Reversing behavioural abnormalities in mice exposed to maternal inflammation. Shin Yim Y., Park A., Berrios J., Lafourcade M., Pascual L.M., Soares N., Yeon Kim J., Kim S., Kim H., Waisman A., Littman D., Wickersham I.R., Harnett M.T., Huh J., Choi G. B.