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Name: Phuong (Joey) Nguyen     
Position: MSc student
Birthplace: Hanoi, Vietnam
Nationality: Vietnamese

 
Previous or Current Education: 

Bachelor of Science – Honours in Biochemistry. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada



Research Summary: 

My current study involves in vivo delivery of siRNA to leukemia cells using liposomes - it is a 
collaboration project between Fabio Rossi, Keith Humphries and Pieter Cullis labs. With the 
application in inhibiting the expression of all classes of pathological proteins, RNA inteference 
has attracted intense interest in the past decade as a potential new class of therapeutics. In our 
previous work, we have verified the ability of synthetic liposomes to selectively bind leukemia 
cells expressing the CD45 receptor. Following the delivery of siRNA, my goal is to determine if 
these siRNA can inhibit the expression of a selective gene (i.e. destabilized GFP). Once it is 
demonstrated, further studies of RNAi application will be conducted such as inhibition of the G9a 
methytransferase.



Personal Summary:

 In 2005, I came to Toronto, Canada as a high school student. After obtaining Bachelor 
degree in Biochemistry at Concordia University (Montreal), I moved to Vancouver and started 
working as an analyst at the Australian Laboratory Services. From 2012, I joined the Genome 
Science and Technology graduate program at UBC.

I love spending time with my family and friends. My hobbies include travelling, karaokeing and 
dancing.

Selected Publications:

Charge-assisted hydrogen bond-directed self-assembly of an amphiphillic zwitterionic
quinonemonoimine at the liquid-solid interface; Yuan Fang,  Phuong Nguyen, Oleksandr 
Ivasenko, Maria Paula Aviles, Eskedar Kebede, Mohammad S. Askari, Xavier Ottenwaelder, 
Ulrich Ziener, Olivier Siri and Louis A. Cuccia. Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 11255-11257

Contact: phuonghn@brc.ubc.ca



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