Dr. Dung Chi VU is the Director of the Center for Medical Genetics/Genomics, Molecular Therapy, Metabolism and
Endocrinology, Vietnam National Children’s Hospital (NCH), Hanoi, Vietnam. He has extensive clinical experience in medical genetics/genomics, rare and undiagnosed diseases, inherited metabolic diseases, and clinical and molecular
endocrinology.
Dr. Dung was a pediatric resident at the Medical Genetic Center of the Hospital Pediatrics of St. Antony, Catholic University of Lille, France (2001–2002). He was also a research fellow at Saint Louis University, MO, USA (2006–2009), and a fellow at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded the Pfizer Overseas Fellowship for his outstanding presentation to the Japanese Society for Inherited Metabolism Diseases in 2004. Dr. Dung received several awards including the Travel Award to attend the 11th International Congress of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (ICIEM) in San Diego, California, USA, in 2009 and the Asian Investigator Award at the 53rd annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Inherited Metabolic diseases and the 10th annual symposium of the Asian Society for Inherited Metabolic diseases in 2011 in Chiba, Japan. He is a principal investigator of the Vietnam site of the fourth international multicenter clinical trials, including congenital hyperinsulinism, enzyme replacement therapy for Hunter disease, and gene replacement therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.
