Associate Professor (CHS)
- Director of Radiopharmaceutical Production Facility
- Associate Director UW PET Imaging Center
Nuclear Medicine/PET Imaging

Education
- Undergraduate: Johns Hopkins University
- Medical School: New York University
- Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Fellowship:
- Johns Hopkins Hospital
- National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD)
Publications
Biography
Dr. Steve Y. Cho is an associate professor (CHS) in the Nuclear Medicine
Section of the Department of Radiology. He is engaged in translational molecular
imaging research as Director of the Translational Imaging Research Core at the
University of Wisconsin
Carbone
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Director of the new cGMP Radiopharmaceutical Production Facility,
and Associate Director of the UW PET Center. His research
interest involves translational imaging, with a focus on development of novel and existing PET
radiopharmaceuticals to improve clinical management and therapy development for cancer and infection.
Dr. Cho graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in the Research Honors Program, and
received prior medical training through a Pediatrics Residency and a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After a Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship at the National
Institutes of Health, inspired by the promise of molecular imaging, he underwent further training with
a Nuclear Medicine Residency and PET Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He stayed on at Johns Hopkins
as an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Oncology before moving to UW–Madison in 2014. Dr. Cho was the
recipient of the 2008 RSNA Research Scholar Award, 2008 Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) Young Investigator
Award, 2011 PCF Creativity Award, and 2013 Society of Nuclear Medicine Editors’ Choice Award for the top
three best clinical investigation manuscripts. He is actively involved in PET imaging studies with the
Children's Oncology Group (COG)
and
ECOG-ACRIN national cooperative groups, and serves on
the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Medical
Imaging Center for Molecular Imaging Innovation and Translation (SNMMI CMIIT)
Board of Directors.