Dinh Toi Chu

Dr. Dinh-Toi Chu currently serves as Director at the Center for Biomedicine and Community Health, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. He is a former Marie Curie Postdoc and Researcher at the Faculty of medicine, University of Oslo in Norway, and also a former lecturer at   Faculty of Biology, Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam.

Dr. Chu has a strong background in molecular biomedicine (especially in
molecular metabolisms,health nutrition, molecular cell biology, and cancer immunity), and in molecular epidemiology. He got a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree focusing on infection immunity (Vietnam, 2006), and a Master of Biological Science focusing on cancer and graft-vs-host-disease immunity (South Korea, 2011).
In the period from 2011 to 2015, he did his PhD degree in molecular medicine as part of an EU-funded program entitled
“Nutrition and ambient temperature during early development can reduce susceptibility to obesity” at IARFR PAS in Poland under the supervision of Prof. Leslie P. Kozak – a well-known American scientist in lipid metabolism and adipobiology.
From 11/2015-10/2017, He  was a Marie Curie postdoc in molecular medicine, then a researcher (11/2017-11/2018)
at the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, Norway.

To date, he has published more than 136 papers (26 first, 53 corresponding and 57 co-author papers) in molecular biomedicine and
epidemiology in peer-reviewed journals. They are most
peer-reviewed publications of high international standard such as papers in
Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Lancet Oncology, Lancet Neurology, Lancet, Nature, and JAMA Oncology.
He is also a co-author or single author of four published books on science, and three books and one novel to encourage the Vietnamese young people in studying and doing sciences, all these books were published in Vietnamese and by well-known publishers in Vietnam.

Since 2014, he has been a reviewers for more than 35 high qualified scientific journals such as
such as Nature Communications; Scientific Reports; The FASEB Journal, Frontiers in Pharmacology; 
PlosOne, Stem Cell Research & Therapy; and Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
(you can see 27 of these journals in Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1369720/dinh-toi-chu/peer-review/).
 And since 11.2017, he has been a Section Editor for the Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Experimental Therapeutics. He is also acting as a reviewer for research proposals that are applied for funding from Polish National Science Centre.

Because of the past researching and teaching
accomplishments, he received several national and international scholarship and awards such as:

-          The Dang Van Ngu Awards by the Hanoi Medical University in 2019

-          Golden GlobeAward 2018 by Ministry of Science and Technology and Vietnam Central Youth Union in Vietnam (for top 1 excellent young scientists in Vietnam)

-          Medal of Creative Young Talents in 2018 by Vietnam Central Youth Union.

-          Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Medicine named Scientia Fellows by
European Union and University of Oslo Norway, from November 2015 to November 2018.

-          PhD scholarship from December 2011 to June 2015 in
Welcome Program funded by European Union Structural Funds 
via the Foundation for Polish Science.

-          Brain Korea 21 (BK21) graduate scholarship by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, from February 2009 to February 2011.

His current H index = 25 (Scopus, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56239816300) or
29 (Google scholar, https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=epz5xbwAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=2)