Dr. Phuong-Hien Nguyen - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
2023 – 2025: Principal Investigator (IPFP A 09) at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
since 2022: Group leader “Laboratory for Tumor-Host Interdependence”, Clinic I for Internal Medicine, Univ. Hospital Cologne
2021 – 2025: Career Advancement Program group leader (CAP-19), Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
2015 – 2020: Postdoc, co-principal investigator at the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Michael Hallek, Clinic I for Internal Medicine, Univ. Hospital Cologne
2010 – 2014: PhD student at the laboratory of Prof. Michael Hallek, Clinic I for Internal Medicine, Univ. Hospital Cologne
2009 – 2010: Diplom thesis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
2004 – 2009: Diplom student in Biology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Awards, Distinctions and Scientific Activities
Ad hoc Reviewing Activities for Scientific Journals: Blood; Leukemia; Cell Death & Disease; Blood Advances; Frontiers in Immunology; Cancer Cell International; Scientific Reports; Cancer Medicine; Annals of Hematology; Acta Haematologica; Cancers; Pharmaceutics; Vaccines; Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
2022 & 2024: Selection Committee, Freyberg-Rüßmann-Foundation Award
since 2023: Member of the European Association for Cancer Research
since 2021: Board Member of the Early Career Support Committee, Collaborative Research Centre 1530 (SFB-1530)
2019: Female Career Advancement grant, KFO-286
2017: Faculty Award for the best publication of 2016, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Cologne
Talks (selected)
2026: European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Conference: Signalling Circuits in Cancer, virtual
2025: 5th European School of Hematology (ESH) Scientific Workshop: The Haematological Tumour Microenvironment and its Therapeutic Targeting, London, UK
2024: 3rd European School of Hematology (ESH) Translational Research Conference on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Vienna, Austria (invited speaker)
2022: 2nd European School of Hematology (ESH) Translational Research Conference on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, virtual (invited speaker)
2021: 4th Vinmec International Conference on Cell & Gene Therapy, virtual (invited speaker)
2021: Tongji-Cologne Symposium on Translational Oncology, virtual (invited speaker)
2019: 5th European School of Hematology (ESH) International Conference on New Concepts in Lymphoid Malignancies, Estoril, Portugal (invited speaker)
2015: XVI international workshop on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (iwCLL), Sydney, Australia
2013: 55th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition (ASH), New Orleans, LA, USA