TRINH DUY QUANG

Dr. Trinh Duy Quang earned his Medical Doctor degree in 1996 and completed a three-year full-time internship in Infectious Diseases in 2000 at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in 2010 and then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. ,He has studied and published articles about molecular epidemiology of viruses causing acute gastroenteritis in Asian countries, HIV-1 isolated from Vietnamese children, as well as in-vitro study on the infectivity of influenza A virus during the first trimester of pregnancy. Most recently, his research interests have focused on factors enhancing HIV replication in T cells; possible effects of vaginal mucosal immune response against bacterial infection on HIV infection; mechanisms by which rubella virus infects the fetus during pregnancy as well as possible alternative cellular receptors for rubella virus.