Hung Nguyen

Burnett School of Biomedical Science/Cancer Division

University of Central Florida

Hung Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Medicine

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.

Publications

Bone Marrow Transplantation Platform to Investigate the Role of Dendritic Cells in Graft-versus-Host Disease

1Cancer Division, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, 2Department of Biochemistry, Hanoi University of Pharmacy, 3Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Houston Methodist Research Institute, 4Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 5Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Hillman Cancer Center

JoVE 60083

 Immunology and Infection