Dr Nguyen's research focuses on developing advanced biomedical devices, including microfluidic and surface acoustic wave (SAW) platforms, for applications in reproductive biology. He aims to design sound wave-based culture systems for the long-term in vitro culture of follicles and oocytes, with the broader goal of advancing reproductive technologies and improving cell culture methodologies.
 
Dr Nguyen earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) under Professor Du Hejun (NTU, Singapore) and Professor Richard YongQing Fu (Northumbria University, UK), where he developed acoustic microfluidic systems for microparticle and cell manipulation, laying the groundwork for advanced tissue engineering and biostructure fabrication.
As a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Jongyoon Han’s lab at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), a major research enterprise established by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in partnership with the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF), he led the development of a label-free, high-throughput microfluidic platform for removing undifferentiated cells from iPSC-derived populations- work that reduced tumorigenicity risk in stem cell products and was featured in MIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/scientists-develop-low-cost-device-safer-cell-therapy-0207). These efforts resulted in two international patents (WO2024076302A1 and WO2024076963A1).
Prior to his current role, Dr. Nguyen was a scientist at Agency for Science, Technology and Research or A*STAR (Biomanufacturing Technology Group, Singapore), where he worked on scalable technologies for cell therapy manufacturing. His projects included continuous in-line systems for viral inactivation and microfluidic platforms to enhance viral transduction in immune cell therapy. This work supported improvements in process reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, and led to another international patent (WO2025264183A1).