I am Minh Anh DANG, a public health and human rights-obsessed MD-PhD student in neuroscience in Paris, France. My interests span across immunology, health equity, neurodevelopment, and learning.
I am deeply passionate about neuroscience research, particularly neurodevelopmental disorders and the immune reactions that could potentially be associated with them. My career started during English tutoring sessions with primary school students, where I realized that not everybody, especially children, processed information in the same way.
This realization led me to medical school for an eventual specialization in neuropediatrics, the Institut Pasteur to understand hearing mechanisms and their role in information processing, and eventually to studying EEG brain waves in children with autism spectrum disorder. Now in my third year post-baccalaureate, I am currently at the École normale supérieure in Paris studying morphological and genetic effects of prematurity and prenatal inflammation on neuronal development in mouse models. This helps me understand how early immune conditions shape the developing brain!
I am also an avid advocate for universal access to healthcare and believe that it is a fundamental human right. This belief was reinforced in Bản Liền, a Vietnamese village in the highlands located about 400 km from my hometown of Hà Nội, where I spent three years working to ensure the sustainability and accessibility of healthcare and economic development through the organization SANSE (Sustainable Agriculture and Social Enterprise) of which I was President.
A few years later in medical school, I was in charge of a medical campaign in Perú, ensuring first-aid care for over 450 patients across three villages with the help of Peruvian physicians, nurses, ultrasound technicians, and my fellow medical students at Sorbonne University. This summer of 2026, I will return to my home country of Vietnam, where I will be at Huế, interning at its local hospital in the pediatric and medical genetics departments to further understand the genetic implications of diseases in children, at the same time witnessing the healthcare infrastructure of a developing country so intimate to me that is Việt Nam.
In my free time, I love laughing at my friends’ jokes, playing the harp, cooking with the people I love, dancing up and down when I’m given good food, and of course, sleeping. My airline-employee parents have given me an innate desire to see a little bit more of the world every year. Lastly, one of my dreams is to have two golden retrievers named Poule and Oeuf and two Bernese Mountain Dogs named Chaussette and Sockette.
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