University of Florida
Gainesville, United States
Lan Hoang-Minh, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Lillians S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, Florida.
Lan Hoang-Minh graduated with her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at UF in 2012, before becoming a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr. Matthew Sarkisian. She received a Basic Research Fellowship Grant from the American Brain Tumor Association to study the molecular mechanisms involved in glioblastoma growth and resistance to standard therapies and was a Lecturer for the Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation course in the UF Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Hoang-Minh was promoted to Assistant Scientist with the UF Department of Neurosurgery in March 2018 and is now a Research Assistant Professor in the Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy at UF. Dr. Hoang-Minh's work is focused on optimizing immunotherapy strategies, particularly adoptive T cell and neoadjuvant immunotherapy, for the treatment of pediatric and adult malignant brain tumors. Her projects have been supported by the American Brain Tumor Association, Elsa U Pardee Foundation, St. Baldrick's Foundation, B*Cured, and Live Like Bella Childhood Cancer Foundation.