Professional Bio
Sang Nguyen, MD, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His research interest is cancer epidemiology, focusing on understanding biological mechanisms related to modifiable factors, which would lead to the development of personalized preventive strategies for improving cancer prognosis.
Dr. Nguyen received his MD from Hanoi Medical University. After that, he worked as a physician scientist at Hanoi Medical University on HIV/AIDS-related research before joining the Epidemiology PhD Program at Vanderbilt University under the mentorship of Dr. Xiao-Ou Shu in 2016. His first two years of graduate study were supported by the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Congress. In 2019, he was awarded the Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke (VECD) Fogarty global health fellowship, which supported spending one year at the Vietnam National Cancer Institute (VNCI) to receive training in field epidemiology and collecting information for his dissertation research.
As a result, Dr. Nguyen developed his PhD dissertation project to assess the incidence of toxicities of chemotherapy among Vietnamese women with breast cancer and investigate the influence of gut microbiome and lifestyle factors on chemotherapy-induced toxicity. Throughout the PhD graduate program, he worked on several research projects and generated 18 publications, with eight as the first author.
Since June 2022, Dr. Nguyen has continued to pursue his postdoctoral research fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center under Dr. Xiao-Ou Shu's supervision to investigate the predictor of chemotherapy-induced toxicity among sarcoma patients and the role of the gut microbiome on human health.
Education
PhD - Epidemiology - Vanderbilt University, 2022
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
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2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307