Thanh Nguyen

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering


Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2013

Research Focus

  • Nanotechnology
  • BioMEMs
  • Microfluidics
  • Nanopiezoelectrics
  • Bionanointerface
  • Cell/Neuronal Mechanics
  • Biomaterials
  • Drug Delivery
  • Regenerative Engineering

Awards

  • Max Plank Postdoctoral Fellowship, USA, 2014
  • Gordon Y.S. Wu prize (from Princeton University, School of Engineering) for Excellence, awarded to engineering graduate student who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers, USA, 2012

Publications

Singh, P.; Vinikoor, T.; Sharma, N.; Nelson, N.; Prasadh, S.; Oiknine, R.; Nguyen, T. D., Single-Administration Self-Boosting Microneedle Patch for the Treatment of Obesity. Advanced Therapeutics 2024, 2400028

Chorsi, M.-S.; Linthicum, W.; Pozhidaeva, A.; Mundrane, C.; Mulligan, V. K.; Chen, Y.; Tavousi, P.; Gorbatyuk, V.; Vinogradova, O.; Hoch, J. C.; Huey, B. D.; Nguyen, T. D.; Soh, H. T.; Kazerounian, K.; Ilies, H., Ultra-confined controllable cyclic peptides as supramolecular biomaterials. Nano Today 2024, 56, 102247.

Das, R.; Le, D.; Kan, H.-M.; Le, T. T.; Park, J.; Nguyen, T. D.; Lo, K. W. H., Osteo-inductive effect of piezoelectric stimulation from the poly(l-lactic acid) scaffolds. PLOS ONE 2024, 19, (2), e0299579.

Vinikoor, T.; Dzidotor, G. K.; Le, T. T.; Liu, Y.; Kan, H.-M.; Barui, S.; Chorsi, M. T.; Curry, E. J.; Reinhardt, E.; Wang, H.; Singh, P.; Merriman, M. A.; D’Orio, E.; Park, J.; Xiao, S.; Chapman, J. H.; Lin, F.; Truong, C.-S.; Prasadh, S.; Chuba, L.; Killoh, S.; Lee, S.-W.; Wu, Q.; Chidambaram, R. M.; Lo, K. W. H.; Laurencin, C. T.; Nguyen, T. D., Injectable and biodegradable piezoelectric hydrogel for osteoarthritis treatment. Nature Communications 2023, 14, (1), 6257.

Chorsi, M. T.; Le, T. T.; Lin, F.; Vinikoor, T.; Das, R.; Stevens, J. F.; Mundrane, C.; Park, J.; Tran, K. T. M.; Liu, Y.; Pfund, J.; Thompson, R.; He, W.; Jain, M.; Morales-Acosta, M. D.; Bilal, O. R.; Kazerounian, K.; Ilies, H.; Nguyen, T. D., Highly piezoelectric, biodegradable, and flexible amino acid nanofibers for medical applications. Science Advances 2023, 9, (24), eadg6075.

Tran, K. T. M.; Nguyen, T. D., Lithography in Drug Delivery. In Nano- and Microfabrication Techniques in Drug Delivery : Recent Developments and Future Prospects, Lamprou, D., Ed. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2023; pp 249-274

Khanh T.M. Tran, Thinh T. Le, Vivek Agrahari, M. Melissa Peet, Louise A. Ouattara, Sharon M. Anderson, Trang Huyen Le-Kim, Onkar N. Singh, Gustavo F. Doncel and Thanh D. Nguyen. Single-Administration Long-Acting Microarray Patch with Ultrahigh Loading Capacity and Multiple Releases of Thermally Stable Antibodies. Molecular Pharmaceutics 2023, 20, (5), 2352-2361.

Singh, P.; Youden, B.; Carrier, A.; Oakes, K.; Servos, M.; Jiang, R.; Lin, S.; Nguyen, T. D.; Zhang, X., Photoresponsive polymeric microneedles: An innovative way to monitor and treat diseases. Journal of Controlled Release 2023, 353, 1050-1067.

Tran, K. T. M.; Gavitt, T. D.; Le, T. T.; Graichen, A.; Lin, F.; Liu, Y.; Tulman, E. R.; Szczepanek, S. M.; Nguyen, T. D., A Single-Administration Microneedle Skin Patch for Multi-Burst Release of Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2., Adv. Mater. Technol. 2022, 2200905

Singh, P.; Muhammad, I. j.; Nelson, N. E.; Tran, K. T. M.; Vinikoor, T.; Chorsi, M. T.; D’Orio, E.; Nguyen, T. D., Transdermal delivery for gene therapy. Drug Delivery and Translational Research 2022.

Thanh Nguyen
Contact Information
Emailnguyentd@uconn.edu
Phone860-486-2415
Mailing Address191 Auditorium Road, Unit 3139, Storrs, CT 06269-3139
Office LocationUTEB
CampusStorrs
Linkhttps://nguyenresearchgroup.com/