Vivian Nguyen

I’m Vivian. I joined the Malkova lab in the spring of 2024 as a Lab Supervisor and welcomed the Iowan team to UT Health San Antonio. I earned my MS in Biotechnology at UT Health San Antonio and have a background in cancer research, in particular molecular targeted therapies affecting the mechanisms of DNA repair in mammalian cells.  I also have past experience of working at an independent molecular diagnostics lab so I get to see both sides of the bench in the research and clinical worlds! I’m hoping to use my experiences to aid the lab in day-to-day operations as well as their research of BIR mechanisms in humans.

On a personal note, I LOVE animals, I enjoy biking and swimming, and I am also a bookworm, gamer, traveler, German car enthusiast, and language/linguistics geek.