Dr. Phuong-Hien Nguyen - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
since 2023: Principal Investigator (IPFP A 09) at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
2023 – 2025: CMMC, IPFP A09
since 2022: Group leader “Laboratory for Tumor-Host Interdependence”, Clinic I for Internal Medicine, Univ. Hospital Cologne
2022 – 2026: NRW Research Network CANcer TARgeting (CANTAR)
2022 – 2025: DFG, Collaborative Research Centre CRC-1530
since 2021: Career Advancement Program group leader (CAP-19), Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
2021 – 2023: CMMC, CAP-19
2020 – 2023: Fritz-Thyssen Foundation
2020 – 2022: DFG research grant, first-time proposal
2018 – 2019: Köln Fortune Foundation
2017 – 2024: German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation
2015 – 2020: Postdoc, co-principal investigator at the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Michael Hallek, Clinic I for Internal Medicine, Univ. Hospital Cologne
2015 – 2016: Hilde-Kopp Foundation; Friedrich und Sophie Moritz’sche Foundation
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 professional activities (selected)
Ad hoc Reviewing Activities for Scientific Journals: Blood; Leukemia; Blood Advances; Cell Death & Disease; Annals of Hematology; Acta Haematologica; Cancers; Pharmaceutics; Vaccines; Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
2022 & 2024: Selection Committee, Freyberg-Rüßmann-Foundation Award
2024: Organizer, Annual Retreat of the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Siegburg, Germany
2023: Organizing Committee Member, Erst Klenk Symposium 2023 in Molecular Medicine “From Concepts to Clinic: a New Era of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics”, Cologne, Germany
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
2015: Committee-selected “Best of iwCLL 2015” Symposium, Sydney, Australia
2015: CECAD Travel Grant
Talks (selected)
2024: Sino-German Academic Exchange Week for Medical Students, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (invited speaker, member of the German delegation)
2024: 3rd European School of Hematology (ESH) Translational Research Conference on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Vienna, Austria (invited speaker)
2023: Center for Integrated Oncology-Mildred Scheel School of Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf (CIO-MSSO ABCD) Science Day, Cologne (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
Lectures (selected)
2023 – 2024: Lectures in the Lecture Series “Cancer Biology”, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Cologne
2022: Lecture in the “Research Track” lecture series, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Cologne
2022 – 2023: Lectures in the “Nanocarriers in Medicine” lecture series, Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Univ. of Cologne
2021 – 2022: Lectures at the Mildred-Scheel Graduate School of Oncology (MSSO) Cologne-Bonn