Judy H. Cho, MD

Judy H. Cho, M.D., is the director of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (CBIPM) and the Ward-Coleman Chair for Translational Genetics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research focuses on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) genetics and disease mechanisms and is applying single cell RNASeq and other multi-omic approaches toward developing novel translational insights into IBD. Dr. Cho has served as principal investigator of the Data Coordinating Center of the NIH-funded National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) IBD Genetics Consortium since 2003. Since 2015, Dr. Cho has led the CBIPM, which includes the School’s major biobank, named BioMe. BioMe and CBIPM reflect the School’s major commitment to precision or personalized medicine to improve the care of patients on an individualized basis. She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), American Association for Physicians (AAP) and National Academy of Medicine (NAM).