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Associate Professor, PhD, MD

Nguyen Thanh Binh

  • Director of the Stem Cell Center, Vietnam National Children’s Hospital.
  • Deputy Head of the Department of Pathophysiology and Immunology; Deputy Head of the Office of Science and Technology Management, Hanoi Medical University.
  • Professional Advisor, Mescells Institute of Applied Cell Technology Research.

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    Specialty: Immunology

    Areas of treatment:

    Immune diseases

    • Performing immunological tests and assessing the body’s immune status at the cellular/molecular/genetic level.
    • Applying immunotherapy in the treatment of primary immunodeficiency and cancer.

    Stem cells and stem cell transplantation

    • Harvesting, processing and quality assessment of stem cell products (bone marrow, umbilical cord blood, peripheral blood stem cells).
    • Applying hematopoietic stem cell and mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in treating disease.

    Genetics in cancer and hereditary disease

    • Identifying gene polymorphisms and mutations in certain cancers.
    • Identifying genetic abnormalities in certain rare diseases.

    Career

    • Deputy Head of the Department of Hematology, Vietnam National Children’s Hospital, in charge of the Stem Cell Bank (2013 – 2022)
    • Deputy Head of the Department of Pathophysiology and Immunology; Deputy Head of the Office of Science and Technology Management, Hanoi Medical University (2018 – present)
    • Director in charge of the Stem Cell Center, Vietnam National Children’s Hospital (2022 – present)
    • Professional Advisor, Mescells Institute of Applied Cell Technology Research (2022 – present)

    Education and training

    • Graduated from Hanoi Medical University (2000)
    • PhD in stem cells in medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan (2012)
    • Postdoctoral researcher in stem cells, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan (2012 – 2013)
    • Awarded the title of Associate Professor (2023)

    Books, research and scientific reports

    • Co-author of 72 scientific papers (14 international and 58 domestic), including papers in prestigious journals such as CELL, Cell Stem Cell and SCIENCE.
    • Principal investigator of 5 national-level research projects and 2 ministry-level projects; principal investigator of or participant in 6 institutional-level projects.