Hieu Nguyen

Hoang Minh Hieu Nguyen, from Di Linh, Vietnam, is pursuing an MD at Stanford School of Medicine. They earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Middlebury College and a master of philosophy in clinical neurosciences from the University of Cambridge. Hieu aspires to combine science, the arts, and entrepreneurship to improve healthcare quality and access for global populations burdened by chronic disease. Hieu has contributed to advancing our understanding of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases through research at Middlebury College, Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, University of Cambridge, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As a Social Entrepreneurship Fellow at Middlebury, they collaborated with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the World Telehealth Initiative to establish Kenya’s first telemedicine system. This program provides lifesaving services, including dialysis, to Longisa, where such services were once unreachable. Hieu is a recipient of the Elbert C. Cole ’15 Memorial Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa prize, and the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.