President,
Professor,
Department of Molecular & Environmental Biotechnology
Director,
Cancer Research Laboratory
University of Science, VNUHCM
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tel: (+84) 287 3089 899
Email:tlthuoc@hcmus.edu.vn
Asian Federation for Biotechnology, AFOB

- 1983: University Ho Chi Minh City, BSc. in Biology
- 1992: Kyoto University, Japan, Master Degree in Applied Microbiology, Food Science and Technology
- 1995: Kyoto University, Japan, Doctor Degree in Applied Microbiology, Food Science and Technology

- Microbial diversity and application of microbial resources

- Rapid methods in microbiology and application in food quality assurance

- Development of cell surface-engineered microbes for application in agriculture, industry and environment

- Gene expression system and production of recombinant protein

- Application of bioinformatics in biotechnology research

1. NTQ Tram, NTT Trang, DTP Thao, TL Thuoc. Production of Polyclonal Anti-dUCH (Drosophila Ubiquitin Carboxyl-Terminal Hydrolase) Antibodies, Monoclonal Antibodies in Immunodiagnosis and Immunotherapy, 32(2):105-12, 2013.
2. Yen TT, Thao DT, Thuoc TL, An overview on keratinocyte growth factor: from the molecular properties to clinical applications, Protein Pept Lett, 21(3):306-317, 2014.
3. Suong DN,Thao DTP, Masamitsu Y, Thuoc TL, Ubiquitin carboxyl hydrolase L1 significance for human diseases, Protein Pept Lett, 21(7):624-630, 2014.
4. PTP Trang, TL Thuoc, W Schumann, ND Hoang, Development of Pgrac100-based expression vectors allowing high protein production levels in Bacillus subtilis and relatively low basal expression in Escherichia coli, Microbial Cell Factories, 14:72, 2015.
5. TTK Hanh, TM Thuong, NV Long, NTT My, NTL Thuong, TL Thuoc, PB Thang, D Mott, S Maenosono, TV Hieu, LV Hieu, Synthesis and surface functionalization of Fe3O4-SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles with 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane and 1,1′-carbonyldiimidazole for bio-applications, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects504, 1–8, 2016.
6. TA Minh, NT Thao, NC Thuan, HTX Mai, NC Tri, TM Thuong, TL Thuoc, SP Cartwright, RM Bill, TV Hieu, Pichia pastoris versus Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a case study on the recombinant production of human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, BMC Research Notes, 10:148, 2017.
7. NC Thuan, NT Thao, NT Thuy, NTP Phong, NA Dzung, TL Thuoc, TV Hieu, Preparation and in vitro evaluation of FGF-2 incorporated
   carboxymethyl chitosan nanoparticles, Carbohydrate Polymers, 173, 114–120, 2017.
8. Tran DTM, Phan TTP, Huynh TK, Dang NTK, Huynh PTK, Nguyen TM, Truong TTT, Tran TL, Schumann W, Nguyen HD, Development of inducer-free expression plasmids based on IPTG-inducible promoters for Bacillus subtilis, Microbial Cell Factories16: 130, 2017.
9. Quyen VDH, Oanh TT, Phuong TTL, Thuoc TL, Binh DT. Molecular phylogeny of catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) inferred from mitochondrial markers – implications for lower Mekong River Basin, European Journal of Advanced Research in Biological and Life Sciences, 6 (3), 1-12, 2018.
10. TT Nguyen, MD Vuu, MA Huynh, M Yamaguchi, LT Tran, TPT Dang. Curcumin Effectively Rescued Parkinson’s Disease-Like Phenotypes in a Novel Drosophila melanogaster Model with dUCH Knockdown Phenotypes in a Novel Drosophila melanogaster Model with dUCH Knockdown, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity; Vol. 2018, Article ID 2038267.
11. T. Dang, Q. H. D. Vu, E. E. Biesack, T. V. Doan, O. T. Truong, T. L. Tran, A. S. Ackiss, B. L. Stockwell,  K. E. Carpenter, Population genomics of the peripheral freshwater fish Polynemus melanochir (Perciformes Polynemidae), Conservation Genetics, doi.org/10.1007/s10592-019-01189-x, 2019.