PROJECT COORDINATION

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

03/2024 – today – Department of Environmental Immunology, Leipzig, Germany

Support in the coordination of an EU-funded project ENDOMIX including dissemination activities, project controlling and research data management
Organising department retreats, meetings and events with project partners

Vietnamese-German Center for Medical Research

01/2023 – 12/2023 – Hanoi, Vietnam

LABORATORY & QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

Global Public Health

02/2022 – 06/2022 – Department of Global Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden

Project name: “Determinants of Household Catastrophic Costs for People with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Viet Nam”
Primary methodology applied: quantitative data analysis using descriptive statistics, uni- and multivariable logistic regression, and sensitivity analysis

Microbiology

04/2020 – 11/2020 – Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany

Project name: “Synergy or Interference between Phages and Antibiotics against Acinetobacter baumannii”
Primary methodology applied: Plaque assay, MIC determination by microbroth dilution method, primer design, spectrophotometric growth kinetics analysis in 96 well plates, qRT-PCR

03/2017 – 06/2017 – Institute for Food & Health, Freising, Germany

Project name: “The effect of milk storage duration on the AprA peptidase activity and aprA transcription of various Pseudomonas Isolates”
Primary methodology applied: Monitoring bacterial growth by CFU counting, Azocasein assay, RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, qRT-PCR

Clinical Chemistry

12/2019 – 02/2020 – Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany

Project name: “Optimizing expression and purification of cMSP26 and MSPΔH4H5 for nanodisc assembly”
Primary methodology applied: Protein expression and purification, HisTrap affinity chromatography, HiTrap ion exchange chromatography, nanodisc assembly using size exclusion chromatography, ELISA

Virology

04/2019 – 06/2019 – Bavarian NMR Centre, Garching, Germany

Project name: “Effect of small molecule AT-130 on the assembly speed and morphology of the hepatitis B virus capsid”
Primary methodology applied: Capsid purification using sucrose density gradient centrifugation, size exclusion chromatography, electron microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Cancer Biology

04/2018 – 03/2019 – Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Sendai, Japan

Project name: “Aurora A-dependent ubiquitination of OLA1 in the regulation of centrosome number”
Primary methodology applied: co-immunoprecipitation, quantitative immunoblotting, in vivo and in vitro ubiquitination assays

Quality Control

02/2021 – 08/2021 – Roche Pharma, Penzberg, Germany

Primary responsibilities: Creating and updating control charts for process monitoring of pharmaceutical products using Minitab and JMP software, role as communication lead in a site transformation initiative and applying concepts of agile working and Scrum, creating and maintaining a website including publishing of weekly newsletters

Biosafety and Biosecurity

08/2019 – 10/2019 –World Health Organization, Hanoi, Viet Nam

Project name: “Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity strengthening in Viet Nam”
Primary responsibilities: Review of biosafety curriculum training material and policies, Translation and communication support in local and national meetings, cooperation with representatives from the Ministry of Health

Fang Z, Li X, Yoshino Y, Suzuki M, Qi H, Murooka H, Katakai R, Shirota M, Pham TA, Matsuzawa A, Otsuka K. Aurora A polyubiquitinates the BRCA1-interacting protein OLA1 to promote centrosome maturation. Cell Reports. 2023 Aug 29;42(8).
Pham TA, Forse R, Codlin AJ, Phan TH, Nguyen TT, Nguyen N, Vo LN, Dat PT, Minh HD, Nguyen LH, Nguyen HB. Determinants of catastrophic costs among households affected by multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam: a prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2023 Dec 3;23(1):2372.
Pham TA, Nguyen TX, My TN, Le LT, Vu HT, Hoang NT, Tran DM, Nguyen LV, Pham PD, Nurjadi D, Goutard F. Evaluation of screening algorithms to detect rectal colonization with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in a resource-limited setting. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 2024 May 6;6(3).