Judy H Cho, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Genetics; Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Departments & Organizations
Clinical Investigation, Yale Center for (YCCI): LeadershipBiological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Yale Medical Group
Center for Statistical Genomics and Proteomics, Yale
Internal Medicine: Digestive Diseases: Gastroenterology: (Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program) (Liver Center) | Gastrointestinal Procedure Center
Genetics
Research Interests
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD); identifying genetic variation that affects susceptibility to and expression of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Clinical Interests
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Education
- B.A., Ohio State University, 1982
- M.D., Ohio State University College of Medicine, 1986
Selected Publication
- Duerr, R.H., et al. (2006). A genome-wide association study identifies IL23R as an inflammatory bowel disease gene. Science 314:1461-1463.
Articles

Jan/Feb 2010
Autoimmunity: research on many fronts
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)IBD is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine that...

Nov/Dec 2009
Clinical research: the next generation
In 2006, former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., launched the Clinical and...

March/April 2009
Intestinal fortitude
In 1932, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association published “Regional Ileitis: A Pathologic and Clinical...

March/April 2008
Gene-hunters search the world for treatments
Yale researchers are going to the ends of the earth to find the genetic causes of human disease. The inspiration for...

Jan/Feb 2007
New genes found in Crohn’s disease, serious eye ailment
A decade ago, finding genes that contribute to human diseases was labor-intensive, time-consuming and prohibitively...


