University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Nicholas Cho is an MD2/PhD2 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. In 2021, he was awarded the American Brain Tumor Association Jack and Fay Netchin Medical Student Summer Fellowship. Throughout his undergraduate years at Columbia, 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.