Quynh Anh Nguyen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Vanderbilt University

qa.nguyen@vanderbilt.edu

Quynh Anh (aka QA) completed her Bachelor of Science in Biology, with honors in Neurobiology, and Master of Science in Biology from Stanford University. She then went on to complete her Ph.D. at UCSF, performing her dissertation work on mechanisms of inhibitory transmission at hippocampal synapses in Roger Nicoll’s lab. She did her postdoctoral training in Ivan Soltesz’s lab at Stanford University where she was a fellow in the Stanford Epilepsy Research Training Program. Quynh Anh started her independent research position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in January 2024.

Quynh Anh is committed to fostering a supportive, inclusive, and rigorous learning environment in which to train the next generation of scientists. She has mentored several graduate students, research technicians, and medical residents throughout her career, helping many of them obtain their own fellowships and grants, and they have gone on to achieve successful careers in industry, science communication, and academia. As a female, immigrant, and first-generation college graduate, Quynh Anh is dedicated to advancing diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity, and justice (DIBEJ) in the sciences through mentoring, education, and outreach.

Select achievements:

NINDS K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award

NINDS F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award

American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship

UCSF Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship

HHMI ExROP Research Fellowship

Gates Millennium Scholar