VIETNAM
Dr. Dong Thi Thu Trang, MD, PhD
Department of Acute Diseases and Emergency, Senior Official Institute, 108 Military Central Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Faculty Member in Neuroscience, 108 Military Central Hospital and College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity
Dr. Trang is a clinical neurologist and translational neuroscientist whose work focuses on prion diseases, neurodegenerative disorders, and brain aging. For more than a decade, she has been actively involved in research on human prion diseases, with a particular interest in biomarker development and early diagnostic approaches.
Dr. Trang graduated with honors from the Military Medical University in Vietnam and completed a three-year neurology residency at 103 Military Hospital in 2012. She later obtained her PhD with distinction and received the President’s Award for academic excellence.
Her research focuses on biomarker-driven approaches to prion and other neurodegenerative diseases, particularly the development and clinical application of RT-QuIC assays. She has conducted pioneering studies exploring the noninvasive detection of prion-seeding activity using hair roots and scalp tissue.
Dr. Trang has published in international peer-reviewed journals including Scientific Reports, Neurobiology of Disease, Pathogens, and Neuropathology, and regularly presents her research on prion diagnostics and neurodegenerative biomarkers at national and international scientific conferences.