Dr. Dang received his undergraduate degree in Public Health Studies from Johns Hopkins University in 2010, conducted research in the labs of Drs. Drew Pardoll and Anne O’Garra, and completed his Ph.D. in 2018 at UCSF under Dr. Jason Cyster studying oxysterols and cholesterol metabolism in macrophage inflammatory responses. He then joined Dr. Hiten Madhani’s lab for postdoctoral work on immune manipulation by Cryptococcus neoformans, became a tenure-track investigator at NIAID in 2022, and in 2025 moved to the Ragon Institute of MIT/MGH/Harvard, where his group studies crosstalk between fungal pathogens/commensals and mammalian hosts.
Dr. Nguyen is a tenured Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, Co-Director of the Center for Healthcare Mycology and Fungal Genomics, and Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases and the XDR Pathogen Laboratory at UPMC, with research focusing on fungal epidemiology, antifungal resistance, diagnostics, and Candida pathogenesis. She serves on multiple international guideline panels for fungal infections and, through NIH-funded projects, has shown using MinION Nanopore sequencing that Candida bloodstream infections often comprise genetically and phenotypically diverse clonal populations, challenging the traditional single-organism model of candidemia.
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