Meet the team

Diu T.T. Nguyen, PhD

Principle Investigator

Diu obtained her MSc in Biomolecular Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT. She was then awarded a Marie Curie fellowship to complete her PhD (DPhil) from the University of Oxford, UK. Diu then moved to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA for her postdoc, investigating the role of post-transcriptional regulation in normal and malignant cancer stem cells.

She pioneered the use of RNA-editing based approaches to identify RNA targets of RNA-Binding Proteins (RBPs) in mammalian stem cells, which has provided new insights into RBP function in rare cells and opened a new avenue for stem cell research. She also discovered the oncogenic role of a number of RBPs in blood cancer. Diu is a recipient of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Scholar Fellowship that supports her transition to independence. In 2022, Diu started her own group at the Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, with the support of a Career Development Fellowship from Cancer Research UK.

For more information about Diu,please find her on Twitter, Orcid, Research Gate, Google Scholar.

Dr Diu Nguyen

Kim-Phuong To

Postdoctoral fellow

Kim-Phuong To

Bertina Dragunaite

PhD student

Bertina Dragnunaite

Lauren Harrison-Oakes

PhD student

Lauren Harrison-Oakes

Aiman Ahmad

Clinician Research Training Fellow

Aiman Ahmad

Past members:

Quang-Anh Hoang - Research Technician. Current position: PhD student at University of British Columbia

Khadidja Habel - Research Technician. Current position: Laboratory Research Technician at Francis Crick Institute

James Boncan - PDRA. Current position: PDRA at Queen Mary University of London

Wisdom Igiogbe - Undergraduate intern. Current position: undergraduate student at Kent University

The DiuNguyen Lab

Centre for Haemato-oncology

Cancer Research UK Barts Centre

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry

Queen Mary University of London

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Queen Mary University