Hung D. Nguyen

Dr. Hung Nguyen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida. He has a tremendous interest in understanding how cell metabolism decides T-cell fate and function in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, adoptive T-cell transfer therapy and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Nguyen received his BSc from Hanoi University of Pharmacy in Vietnam. He then earned a PhD in Biochemistry at Chungnam National University in Korea. He began the postdoctoral training on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cancer immunology at Medical University of South Carolina. He found that T-cells metabolically reprogram after allogeneic bone marrow stem cell transplantation. He started his lab at the University of Central Florida in August 2019 with an extensive scientific program in immunotherapy. His lab located at Lake Nona Campus.