Assistant Professor
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Choi-Fong Cho is an Instructor in Neurosurgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; an Affiliate in the Chemistry Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and an Associated Scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Her area of research focuses on modeling the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) and developing improved therapeutic delivery strategies to the brain. Dr. Cho graduated with a PhD in Medical Biophysics and Oncology (with Honors in Molecular Imaging) from Western University in Canada, and then conducted her post-doctoral fellowship in Neuro-oncology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which was fully supported by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR). She was promoted within the Neurosurgery Department as a faculty member in 2017, and is currently leading her own research team towards advancing BBB models and developing stealthy therapeutics that can overcome the BBB to treat advanced brain cancer. Her research can significantly benefit the neuroscience community as well as brain cancer patients and their families.