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Editor Name: Khue Vu Nguyen

Dsigneation: Full Project Scientist

Country: USA

University: University of California

BIOGRAPHY

Khue Vu Nguyen (born in Ha Noi, Viet Nam) is currently Full Project Scientist in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, California, U.S.A. He has studied at University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France: B.S. in Biochemistry, M.S. in Molecular Biology, Ph.D. in Macromolecular Physical Chemistry, Ph.D. in Physical Sciences (Doctorat d’Etat es Sciences Physiques). He has worked as Scientist in different French and U.S. Research Institutions and Companies. He

is author and co-author of numerous publications and holder of many patents. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, etc. He is member of different academic organizations such as American Society for Microbiology, American Chemical Society. He is invited reviewer of different scientific journals such as Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, AGE: Journal of the American Aging Association. He is also editorial board member of different scientific journals such as International Journal of Medicine and Molecular Medicine, Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases. He is Scientist Reviewer for grant proposals of the Metabolic Disease Two (MB-2) of the Peer Review Medical Research Program (PRMRP) for the U.S. Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).

RESEARCH INTEREST: Genetic diseases, Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer

PUBLICATION:

1. K.V. NGUYEN, R.K. NAVIAUX and W.L. NYHAN Human HPRT1 gene and the Lesch-Nyhan disease: substitution of alanine for glycine and inversely in the HGprt enzyme protein. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 36, 151-157 (2017).

2. K.V. NGUYEN and W.L. NYHAN Quantification of various APP-mRNA isoforms and epistasis in Lesch-Nyhan disease. Neuroscience Letters, 643, 52-58 (2017).

3. K.V. NGUYEN, K. LEYDIKER, R. WANG, J. ABDENUR and W.L. NYHAN A neurodevelopmental disorder with a nonsense mutation in the Ox-2 antigen domain of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 36, 317-327 (2017).

4. K.V. NGUYEN, S. SILVA, M. TRONCOSO, R.K. NAVIAUX and W.L. NYHAN Lesch-Nyhan disease in two families from Chiloe Island with mutations in the HPRT1 gene. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 36, 452-462 (2017).

5. K.V. NGUYEN Epigenetics in rare diseases. Journal of Rare Disorders: Diagnosis & Therapy, 3:1 (2017).

6. K.V. NGUYEN, R.K. NAVIAUX and W.L. NYHAN Novel mutation in the human HPRT1 gene and the Lesch-Nyhan disease. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 36, 704-711 (2017).

7. K.V. NGUYEN Alzheimer’s disease. AIMS Neuroscience, 5, 74-80 (2018).

8. K.V. NGUYEN Treatment of genetic disease. OBM Genetics, 2, 1-15 (2018).

9. K.V. NGUYEN Lesch-Nyhan Disease. Enliven: Pediatrics and Neonatal Biology, 5, 001 (2018).

10. K.V. NGUYEN, K. LI and R.K. NAVIAUX Immobilization of firefly luciferase on the cell plasma membrane as a quantitative biosensor for measurement of ATP in the pericellular space in live mammalian cells. Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2, 1-10 (2019).

11. K.V. NGUYEN Potential epigenomic co-management in rare diseases and epigenetic therapy. Nucleodises, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 38, 752-780 (2019).

12. K.V. NGUYEN β-Amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the human diseases. AIMS Neuroscience, 6, 273-281 (2019).

13. K.V. NGUYEN, R.K. NAVIAUX and W.L. NYHAN Lesch-Nyhan Disease: I. Construction of expression vectors for hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGprt) enzyme and amyloid precursor protein (APP). Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 39, 905-922 (2020).