{"id":69,"date":"2014-12-30T02:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:37:06","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recent News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Oct 2025<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Jiayu Zhang attend ASHG to present her work in oral session about single-cell multiomic dissection of gene regulatory network in myeloid sub-population.<a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Weixin-Image_20260307003448_3_16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1479 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Weixin-Image_20260307003448_3_16-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Weixin-Image_20260307003448_3_16-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Weixin-Image_20260307003448_3_16-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Weixin-Image_20260307003448_3_16-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Weixin-Image_20260307003448_3_16.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>May 2025<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Dr. Bao, a Pediatric IBD Research Fellow, attended DDW in May 2025 and presented finding from PheWAS of monogenic IBD genes in diverse populations, as well as pilot data from a Perturb-seq study of IBD risk genes in primary human monocytes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1465 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-661x1024.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-768x1189.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-992x1536.jpeg 992w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-1322x2048.jpeg 1322w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/IMG_4791-min-scaled.jpeg 1653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sep 2024<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Dr. Cho and Dr. Chuang attend Gut Cell Atlas in New York to share the lab&#8217;s latest work on spatial transcriptomic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/image0-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1460 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/image0-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/image0-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/image0-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/image0-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/image0-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/image0-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sep 2024\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>&#8211; Chris Tastad and Jiayu Zhang attend scverse 2024 at Munich, Germany to present single cell multi-omic analysis methods and workflow in flash talk, workshop and poster session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/02904bf9-3c1a-40d8-853f-4988c5c5b47d.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1457\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/02904bf9-3c1a-40d8-853f-4988c5c5b47d-300x256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/02904bf9-3c1a-40d8-853f-4988c5c5b47d-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/02904bf9-3c1a-40d8-853f-4988c5c5b47d-1024x874.png 1024w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/02904bf9-3c1a-40d8-853f-4988c5c5b47d-768x656.png 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/02904bf9-3c1a-40d8-853f-4988c5c5b47d-1536x1311.png 1536w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/02904bf9-3c1a-40d8-853f-4988c5c5b47d.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1458\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/b64c9b53-d86a-42ae-8c06-2bc4e975352a-285x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/b64c9b53-d86a-42ae-8c06-2bc4e975352a-285x300.png 285w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/b64c9b53-d86a-42ae-8c06-2bc4e975352a-972x1024.png 972w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/b64c9b53-d86a-42ae-8c06-2bc4e975352a-768x809.png 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/b64c9b53-d86a-42ae-8c06-2bc4e975352a-1458x1536.png 1458w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/b64c9b53-d86a-42ae-8c06-2bc4e975352a.png 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>May 2023<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Dr. Cho, Colleen Chasteau, and Rachel Levantovsky attend DDW to present the lab&#8217;s latest work and to host the NIDDK IBDGC members and satellite sites for a recruitment breakfast.<a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Fvpn0pwXoAAYnLX.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1427 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Fvpn0pwXoAAYnLX-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Fvpn0pwXoAAYnLX-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Fvpn0pwXoAAYnLX-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Fvpn0pwXoAAYnLX-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Fvpn0pwXoAAYnLX-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Fvpn0pwXoAAYnLX.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>April 2023<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Congratulations to Rachel Levantovsky on the successful defense of her dissertation!<a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/FuAmA2oWYAEoRVj.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1426 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/FuAmA2oWYAEoRVj-e1687481236323-300x283.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/FuAmA2oWYAEoRVj-e1687481236323-300x283.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/FuAmA2oWYAEoRVj-e1687481236323-1024x966.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/FuAmA2oWYAEoRVj-e1687481236323-768x725.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/FuAmA2oWYAEoRVj-e1687481236323.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>October 2022<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Dr. Nai-yun Hsu&#8217;s paper &#8220;NOX1 is essential for TNF\u03b1-induced intestinal epithelial ROS secretion and inhibits M cell signatures&#8221; is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/gut.bmj.com\/content\/72\/4\/654.info\">Gut<\/a>. Congratulations to all of the authors!<a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/gutjnl-2023-April-72-4-654-F6.large_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1425 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/gutjnl-2023-April-72-4-654-F6.large_-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/gutjnl-2023-April-72-4-654-F6.large_-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/gutjnl-2023-April-72-4-654-F6.large_-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/gutjnl-2023-April-72-4-654-F6.large_-768x1035.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/gutjnl-2023-April-72-4-654-F6.large_.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Find more updates from the Cho Lab <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/news\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>About the Cho Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Cho Laboratory investigates the genetic and immunologic factors associated with Crohn\u2019s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, collectively known as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). We are part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/departments-and-institutes\/genomics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences<\/a>, at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A major focus of our research is understanding the prevalence of IBD in the \u00a0Ashkenazi Jewish population. We are working on further identifying rare disease associated variants in Ashkenazi Jewish population by Exome Chip technology as well as the biological function of those identified genes. Dr. Cho\u2019s research has contributed to defining the pathophysiologic mechanisms of IBD by identifying associations to NOD2, IL23R, and 163 loci to IBD. With new findings our research is evolving to now looking at the function of lipid mediators and their related cytokines in innate immune cells, and the full transcriptome of enteroids, the intestinal epithelial stem cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mountsinaiibd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MountsinaiIBD<\/a>\u00a0\u2551\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/research\/ipm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent News Oct 2025 &#8211; Jiayu Zhang attend ASHG to present her work in oral session about single-cell multiomic dissection of gene regulatory network in myeloid sub-population.May 2025 &#8211; Dr. Bao, a Pediatric IBD Research Fellow, attended DDW in May 2025 and presented finding from PheWAS of monogenic IBD genes in diverse populations, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/cholab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}