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
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
