Le Thi Ly

Prof. Ly Le was a fellow of the Vietnam Education Foundation by the US Government in 2004 and graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Computational Chemistry from the University of Utah in 2010. From 2008 to 2010, She was a visiting student at the Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Modeling of NIH at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Upon the completion of her education in the United States, she returned to Vietnam and joined International University, Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh city.  She had been leading the Computational Biology Center from 2010 to 2019 and was promoted to associate professor of Biochemistry by the State Council for Professorship of Vietnam in 2015. Her research group has published more than 100 papers in prestigious journals including PNAS, Human Genome Variation, BMC Bioinformatics, PloS Computational Biology, Medicinal Chemistry. She is also an associate editor of BMC Human Genomics, (Nature) Pharmacogenomics. Currently, she is the principal investigator of the Vingroup Big Data Institute. Her research focuses on pharmacogenomics and adverse drug reaction in the Vietnamese population.