The 33-year-old Vietnamese female professor of apprentice studies in the US

Post-doctoral research at the world's leading Stanford University, Ngo Thi Minh Thuy (33) was appointed by the famous medical school of Oregon Health and Science University as professor of probationary and physiological research. .

At the end of January, Dr. Ngo Thi Minh Thuy (33) started the Research Assistant Professor at the Oregon Health and Science University Medical University (OHSU, Portland City for short). , America). As one of the first scientists involved in building an early cancer diagnosis center with a billion-dollar investment, Thuy has worked with many leading researchers, such as Prof. Dr. Brian Druker - The first person to develop a targeted cancer drug Gleevec.

The work of Dr. Minh Thuy is research on signs and mechanisms for early stage cancer formation, development of treatments, assessment and conjecture of treatment effectiveness. She also guided graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to OHSU University.

Dr. Ngo Thi Minh Thuy (33 years old), is a professor of probationary research at Oregon Health and Science University Medical University.(Photo: NVCC).

"This is an excellent achievement, especially for women," said Dr. Dang Van Huan (Ministry of Education and Training). Once a graduate student in Portland, he said, OHSU is a major university, ranking first in the US for basic research. The competition to be admitted to work here is very high. The female professor of probationary research Minh Thuy also shared that it was a " dream opportunity" and she was very excited about her new job.

Before coming to OHSU, in 2008 Minh Thuy studied for a master's degree in the Netherlands and was the first to discover a change in the molecular state of water and lipids on the surface when interacting with DNA . In 2010, while working as a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (USA), she developed a method to simultaneously observe and control a complex single-molecule system that is the nucleosome. She demonstrated by experimenting with physical laws to control mechanical strength, the opening and closing dimensions of DNA basic structure units are nucleosomes.

Continuing to do postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Dr. Minh Thuy was used by Professor Stephen Quake - the inventor of the chip used in biomedical, non-invasive down test method, accepted to work in the laboratory. experience.

"My research topics are purely on basic science. It contributes more to human understanding of the basic mechanisms of reciprocal interaction of biological molecules such as water, lipid, DNA. and protein, " said the female apprentice professor. The research period is not long, but for Minh Thuy, it is the result of more than 20 years of book lights, literally. Until the final years of high school, she often had to burn oil lamps to study late at night.

"At level 3, I lived with my grandparents in the village in Thai Nguyen, 12km away from the school, more than half of the earth road. At that time, the power line in the village was still poor, so when the rain and wind, electricity was cut off, I had to light the lamp. study night, " said Thuy. The female teacher said that the most difficult is still the wick and winter wick days. While the villagers went to the district school to study, Minh Thuy was still in the village because he thought that going to university would not live with grandparents anymore.

"As for me, in the village, I had to get up early in the morning, to tie the ball bag at the bottom of the bottle to pedal to wade through the muddy roads to study since the sun has not yet risen. The most afraid is to go alone the night before the canvas field. thousands of people are not shiny, maybe because of that, I don't have any difficulties later, "said the female professor.

Curious with the magic of biology, Minh Thuy moved from Physics research to Ly Sinh.(Photo: NVCC).

Do joined the class of talented engineers at Hanoi University of Technology (in 2002) and became the first valedictorian of the entire 47th class, Ngo Thi Minh Thuy then received a master's fellowship scholarship for 2 years (2007- 2009) in the Netherlands; Study doctoral studies in Bi Sinh (2009) in the US.

Like to do risky research projects, it takes a lot of time to last 4-5 years, Ngo Thi Minh Thuy was under great pressure when applying for scholarships because there was no published article. The process of doing her doctorate was denied scholarship up to 3 times."Fortunately, I received full financial support from the professor, so I was patient enough to cherish my research until I was mature and published in major journals," said Dr. Thuy.

Currently, Dr. Minh Thuy has 6 international articles published in Cell magazines in 2015 (impact factor 35,532, ranked first among 1,878 world-class Li Sinh magazines); Nano Letters (impact factor 13.779); Journal of American Chemical Society (impact factor 12.113) . She also won the Best Poster Award, Best Talk in the conference on Biophysics, Computational Biology (2014, University of Illinois) and conferences. Central America on genetics in 2014 .

As a mother of two children (6-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy), Ngo Thi Minh Thuy spent 8 hours a day to study and then return to the home to take care of her babies. Every night, when she was fast asleep, she would work again at home or go back to school to do experiments. When I was sick, I had to quit my job, and I would spend the weekend studying it. She is fortunate to have a husband (working at Intel in Portland, USA) sympathizing and sharing with her.

"Everyone only has 24 hours a day so I think it is important to choose to do what I see. In addition to the time spent with my family, I feel the best when I scratch my head thinking to solve difficult experiments, answering tough scientific questions, for me, work is fun so I don't feel anything heavy, " said the research professor.