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Biography
Dr Tu Nguyen-Dumont is a cancer geneticist and bioinformatician. She is a current National Breast Cancer Foundation (Australia) Career Development Fellow (2017-2020)
Tu was awarded her PhD in 2010 from University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France. She completed her PhD training in the Genetic Cancer Susceptibility group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization (IARC/WHO, France), during which she received a PhD scholarship from Fondation de France and a Special Trainee Award from IARC/WHO. In 2011, she was awarded a Komen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, which allowed her to gain international research experience by moving to Melbourne and training at the Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, The University of Melbourne.
Since 2017, she has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Precision Medicine group, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research.
Research interests
Tu and her team use cutting-edge molecular techniques and bioinformatics to understand the underlying causes of genetic predisposition to breast, prostate and paediatric cancers.
Her training and expertise puts her in a unique position in the "research and translation" space. She believes that translational bioinformatics will enable to fully realise the biological and clinical value of the vast amount of data that is currently being generated.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Molecular biology-Oncogenetics, PhD, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (University Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Award Date: 15 Dec 2010
Network
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Population genomic screening of young adults to prevent cancer in Australia
Lacaze, P., McNeil, J., Zalcberg, J., Thomas, D., Milne, R., James, P., Delatycki, M., Young, M., Nowak, K., Nguyen, T., Southey, M., Winship, I. M., Ademi Delaney, Z., Tiller, J., Bruinsma, F., Riaz, M., Terrill, B., Kirk, J., Tucker, K. L. & Andrews, L.
1/07/21 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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Enabling interpretation of panel tests to advance clinical practice
National Breast Cancer Foundation
30/06/17 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
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Selecting the best cancer risk prediction models
MacInnis, R. J., Winship, I. M., Terry, M. B., Milne, R. & Nguyen, T.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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First international workshop of the ATM and cancer risk group (4-5 December 2019)
Lesueur, F., Easton, D. F., Renault, A. L., Tavtigian, S. V., Bernstein, J. L., Kote-Jarai, Z., Eeles, R. A., Plaseska-Karanfia, D., Feliubadaló, L., on behalf of Spanish ATM working group, Arun, B., Herold, N., Versmold, B., Schmutzler, R. K., on behalf of GC-HBOC, Nguyen-Dumont, T., Southey, M. C., Dorling, L., Dunning, A. M., Ghiorzo, P. & 12 others, , Apr 2022, In: Familial Cancer. 21, 2, p. 211-227 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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A polygenic risk score predicts incident prostate cancer risk in older men but does not select for clinically significant disease
Bakshi, A., Riaz, M., Orchard, S. G., Carr, P. R., Joshi, A. D., Cao, Y., Rebello, R., Nguyen-Dumont, T., Southey, M. C., Millar, J. L., Gately, L., Gibbs, P., Ford, L. G., Parnes, H. L., Chan, A. T., McNeil, J. J. & Lacaze, P., 2 Nov 2021, In: Cancers. 13, 22, 12 p., 5815.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Association of variably methylated tumour DNA regions with overall survival for invasive lobular breast cancer
Suman, M., Dugué, P. A., Wong, E. M., Joo, J. H. E., Hopper, J. L., Nguyen-Dumont, T., Giles, G. G., Milne, R. L., McLean, C. & Southey, M. C., 18 Jan 2021, In: Clinical Epigenetics. 13, 1, 16 p., 11.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Evaluation of the association of heterozygous germline variants in NTHL1 with breast cancer predisposition: an international multi-center study of 47,180 subjects
Li, N., Zethoven, M., McInerny, S., Devereux, L., Huang, Y. K., Thio, N., Cheasley, D., Gutiérrez-Enríquez, S., Moles-Fernández, A., Diez, O., Nguyen-Dumont, T., Southey, M. C., Hopper, J. L., Simard, J., Dumont, M., Soucy, P., Meindl, A., Schmutzler, R., Schmidt, M. K., Adank, M. A. & 13 others, , 12 May 2021, In: npj Breast Cancer. 7, 1, 12 p., 52.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Genomic risk prediction for breast cancer in older women
Lacaze, P., Bakshi, A., Riaz, M., Orchard, S. G., Tiller, J., Neumann, J. T., Carr, P. R., Joshi, A. D., Cao, Y., Warner, E. T., Manning, A., Nguyen-Dumont, T., Southey, M. C., Milne, R. L., Ford, L., Sebra, R., Schadt, E., Gately, L., Gibbs, P., Thompson, B. A. & 9 others, , Jul 2021, In: Cancers. 13, 14, 12 p., 3533.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)