People

Linh grew up in Hanoi, Vietnam where she received her B.S. in Advanced Materials Science and Nanotechnology from University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH). In 2018, she entered laboratory ITODYS, CNRS UMR 7086, Paris Diderot University in France for her thesis on developing wearable OECT-based biosensors. In 2019, she moved back to Vietnam and switched fields into the molecular catalysts for energy conversion in laboratory CECS at USTH. Years after, she obtained her M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry at Ewha Womans University in South Korea and Paris-Saclay University in France. Her graduate research there spanned two areas: bioinorganic chemistry at laboratory CBS Ewha, where she was trained to perform synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and reactivities studies of bioinspired nonheme high valent metal-oxo intermediates; and metallodrugs at Institute Galien Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 8612, where she focused on designing organometallic anticancer compounds and engineering metal-rich polymer by RAFT. Besides, she also spent several months at Korea Basic Science Institute as technician for advanced EPR engineering. These experiences strengthened her research interests of nanomedicine and its intersection with polymeric materials and organometallic chemistry. She is therefore convinced that the Nguyen’s group has a prosperous setting to develop in these fields. Outside of lab, she enjoys socializing (diplomacy is her second dream career) and urban sketching, she cares about educational equity policies and popular sciences, and she is a big fan of clay court tennis, Renaissance art, and Peking opera.

Spending many years in the clinics, clinical and basic research in academia and industry, Yuhao thinks his interest lies in scientific research, and receiving a PhD training would be the best way to help him achieve his goal. In 2018, He finished his clinical residency and training in clinical pharmacy and cardiology at Sun Yet-sen Memorial Hospital and Norman Norman Bethune Memorial Hospital in China. He then chose to pursue his master study in cardiovascular metabolism at Boston University from 2018-2020. He then worked as an Industry research scientist for 3 years at Carisma therapeutics in Philadelphia on cell and gene therapy. He had several global conference posters and patents focused on myeloid cell engineering in oncology and non-oncology platform. Although terrible at cooking, he likes to cook Chinese food for his western friends, and western food for his Chinese friends. He also loves musical performance but his neighbors kindly helped him to get rid of this habit .

Ria Parikh is a ’27 from Cincinnati, OH. She is planning to major in biomedical engineering and hopes to work in biotech after college. At Dartmouth, Ria is a member of a South Asian dance team and also writes for the college newspaper. She was a WISP intern her freshman year and worked in an asthma lab this summer. Ria is looking forward to being an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Nguyen Group and learning more about nanomedicine and drug delivery.