Nicholas S. Cho

University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States

Nicholas Cho is an MD/PhD student in the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Bioengineering in UCLA's Brain Tumor Imaging Lab under his mentor Dr. Benjamin Ellingson. His current research interests include MRI biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment response in gliomas. He was recently awarded an NIH/NCI Ruth L. Kirchstein NRSA F30 award and is an Editorial Fellow for the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR). He is also a prior recipient of the American Brain Tumor Association Jack and Fay Netchin Medical Student Summer Fellowship. Throughout his undergraduate years at Columbia Engineering, Nicholas conducted research in the Functional MRI Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center under his mentors Dr. Andrei Holodny and Dr. Kyung Peck, where he studied functional reorganization and neurovascular uncoupling in brain tumors, and in the R&D division at medical device company Becton Dickinson (BD).