Dr. May Choi named a Top 40 Under 40 awardee for exceptional entrepreneurism

Scientists often say their achievements build on work of earlier generations of scientists. In Dr. May Choi’s case, that pioneering scientist is her father. When Choi was in medical school, her father, Vincent — a rheumatologist in Calgary with an interest in lupus — died unexpectedly. She heard stories about the impact he’d made.

Today, along with being the mother to two young children, Choi works across hospitals caring for patients with severe autoimmune conditions like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma, and runs an outpatient clinic dedicated to lupus. Choi leads CatalystDx, a research program funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, to study biomarkers in the blood using artificial intelligence. She is also an associate director at MitogenDx Laboratory, a private laboratory that provides novel autoimmune biomarker testing for patients, physicians and researchers, and is a member of the Snyder Institute. Read about other UCalgary Top 40 Under 40 awardees.