Youngho Seo, Ph.D.

Position:
Associate Specialist, Step 2

Degrees:
B.S. in Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (1995)
M.S. in Physics, The University of Alabama in Hustville (1997)
M.S. in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles (2001)
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles (2002)

Contact Information:
E-mail Address: youngho.seo_at_radiology.ucsf.edu
Phone Numbers: 415-353-9464 (direct), 415-719-7624 (pager)
Fax Numbers: 415-353-9458, 415-353-9421
URL: http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~yseo/

Mailing Address:
UCSF Physics Research Laboratory
Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging
185 Berry Street, Suite 350
San Francisco, CA 94107

Research Interest and Goals:

  • Development of molecular imaging techniques in both humans and small animals - Radionuclide imaging techniques for prostate cancer using multi-modality imaging systems, SPECT/CT and MRI/MRSI.
  • Imaging Drug Delivery - Imging radiolabeled therapeutic agents delivered in small animals using a dedicated small animal SPECT/CT system.
  • In general, he hopes to expand his research activities that will also include PET(/CT) in parallel with SPECT/CT and MRI/MRSI for both humans and small animals with focus on physiologic, metabolic, and morphologic imaging of cancers and drug delivery.

    Others:
    Currently, he has extensive collaborations with Nuclear Medicine Section of Radiology Department at UCSF. He has been seeking collaborations on the use of PET/CT in radiation treatment planning with Radiation Oncology Department as an effort to translational research from research to patient bed. He will collaborate, for imaging drug delivery, with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University in the near future. He also plans to be actively involved in postgraduate education in the UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering.

    Personal:
    Youngho Seo has obtained his B.S. degree in Physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He also holds a M.S. degree in Physics with specialization in space plasma physics from University of Alabama in Huntsville. After one year of graduate study with focus on Medical Physics at the University of California, Irvine, he returned to basic science to obtain his second M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from University of California, Los Angeles where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on experimental particle astrophysics. Prior to joining UCSF Physics Research Laboratory directed by Prof. Bruce Hasegawa in 2003, he held a postdoctoral position for one year at UCLA in experimental neutrino physics.