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Dr. Nguyen received his doctoral degree from the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Pierre Julien. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, training with Dr. Li-Huei Tsai. In September 2005, Dr. Nguyen joined the University of Calgary and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) as an investigator and holds the Brenda Strafford Foundation Chair in Alzheimer’s Research. He has launched an independent research career, securing major funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, ALS Canada, and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Dr. Nguyen's primary research focus is on understanding neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders that disrupt cytoskeleton dynamics and alter cell signaling pathways. He explores how destabilization of the cytoskeleton in early life can trigger conditions such as lissencephaly and schizophrenia and how changes in adults may contribute to Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
Department of Computer Science Master's program. GRE scores are expected for international students.