#  Nhu Nguyen 

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, David Fisher Lab

 

 

 



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Nhu Nguyen grew up in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. She moved to the United States on her own to study abroad after her sophomore year in high school. In 2014, she graduated with high honors in biochemistry from Smith College. Following graduation, she spent two years as a research associate at Massachusetts General Hospital. As a PhD candidate at Harvard, Nhu is interested in immuno-oncology: a field that focuses on developing drugs to help a patient’s own immune system attack cancers. The goal of Nhu’s project is to understand why some tumors can evade the immune system. She will then use this insight to develop strategies to sensitize these “resistant” cancers to newly developed immunotherapies.