DrHien Duong

Dr Hien Duong was awarded a highly competitive Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship and joined Centre of Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) in 2007 for her PhD. She then commenced her postdoctoral academic career in Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (established by UNSW in 2011). In 2014, she joined the Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids, School of Chemistry, the University of Sydney, working on an ARC linkage grant with Dulux Australia. In 2016, she joined the Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD), School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney as a Senior Research Fellow. Recently, Dr Duong took up the position of lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Sydney. Dr Duong has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles relating to using smart nanomaterials for drug delivery in high-impact journals including Nature Nanotechnology, ACS Nano, Chemical Sciencce, Chemical Communication and Angewandte Chemie International Edition. During her postdoctoral appointments, she mentored over 20 students in the area of using different platforms prepared by Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) techniques for drug delivery. Dr Duong is a member of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute (Sydney ID)