New appointment: MBP welcomes Dr. Long Nguyen

The department of Medical Biophysics is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Long Nguyen, Assistant Professor, to the Department of Medical Biophysics. 

Dr. Nguyen completed his MD/PhD in Experimental Medicine at the University of British Columbia with Dr. Connie Eaves on the topic of normal and malignant mammary stem cell biology. He trained in Internal Medicine and specialized in Medical Oncology at the University of Toronto. He then pursued a clinical/research postdoctoral fellowship in functional breast cancer genomics with Dr. Carlos Caldas at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom for which he received both a Translational Research Fellowship from the European Society for Medical Oncology, and a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Dr. Nguyen is a Scientist, and a Staff Medical Oncologist in the Breast Site Group at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, and in the Department of Medical Biophysics. His research laboratory is focused on studying clonal heterogeneity in human breast cancer to understand how rare malignant clones contribute to disease progression and treatment resistance.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Nguyen to the Department.