Head of the Microbiology and Parasitology
Head of Zoonoses, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit
Parasitology and Microbiology Research Unit
Biomedical Research and Diagnostics Center
Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine
Vietnam
Biography
Dr Ngô Thị Hoa is the Head of the Microbiology Department and the Head of Parasitology and Microbiology Unit within the Center for Biomedical Research at Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine.
Hoa also leads the Zoonoses group at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City where her research focuses on understand the mechanism of virulence and the AMR development of the emerging zoonotic bacterial pathogens.
She has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of research projects funded internationally by Wellcome, BBSRC, MRC, Pfizer, AXA, JPIAMR, NIH and nationally via NAFOSTED, DOSTs, OUCRU and Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine. These projects have enabled her to effectively implement multi-disciplinary research projects and develop community-based stakeholder research networks in different provinces in Vietnam.
Hoa has a passion for teaching and training the next generation of scientists in universities and in her laboratories. Hoa has trained to completion 3 PhDs, more than 15 MScs and 25 BSc students.