Biography
Don X. Nguyen was born in Montreal, Québec, Canada and obtained his B.Sc. from McGill University in 1998. He then received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the University of Rochester, NY, before pursuing his post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Joan Massagué at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY (2004-2009). Don is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Medicine (Medical Oncology). He is also the Assistant Cancer Center Director for Research Development at the Yale Cancer Center. Don’s laboratory is focused on studying the biological and molecular determinants of lung tumor progression and cancer metastasis.