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A university lecturer in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a gel for healing wounds, which is about to enter human trials. Researcher Nguyen Thi Hiep is named among the top 100 scientists in Asia in 2019 by Singapore’s Asian Scientist magazine.  Hiep said when she and her team tested the product on pigs it prevented wounds from being infected and then quickly healed them without the need for sutures. There is no need to remove the gel once applied on a wound, and it accelerates the regeneration of damaged tissues, she said. Even people with no knowledge of first aid can apply the gel when someone is hurt before taking the victim to hospital, making the product particularly useful for people in remote areas far from medical facilities, Hiep said. One advantage is that the materials needed to make the gel such as the shells of shrimp and crab are readily available at little cost, she explained. For her invention, Hiep was among four people to receive the 2018 … [Read more...] about Vietnamese researcher makes biological gel to heal wounds without sutures

A new study of free-living soil nematodes co-authored by Vietnamese scientist Nguyễn Thị Ánh Dương was published ịn Nature – the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nguyễn Thị Anh Dương (third, left) discusses with her foreign fellows at an international seminar on sustainable development in Bonn, Germany, 2018. — Photo Courtesy of Nguyễn Thị Ánh Dương Dương, who works at the Vietnam Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, has conducted research and data collection, building a database of soil nematodes in Việt Nam for over 10 years. She has collaborated with 70 leading scientists in the field at 57 laboratories around the world to research and publish the work. “Ecology research often focuses on visible parts of the ecosystem like large plants and animals, and overlooks tiny worms living in … [Read more...] about Vietnamese female scientist co-authored new Nature study

Tran Viet Hung set up Got It Inc, a start-up company which is now operating in three countries including the US, India and Vietnam. Founder of Got It Inc, Tran Viet Hung Got It Inc. last year won a prize at the A’ Design Award and Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious design accolades. The PhotoStudy mobile app by Got It Inc. was voted winner by a jury board including many experts around the world in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Category. Hung also developed GotIt!, an app that connects learners with a study expert who offers them step-by-step help through their homework. After graduating from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hung attended the Computer Science Faculty of the US's Iowa University. He started Got It Inc in the Silicon Valley in 2011. In 2013, Hung led a team to develop SnapNSee, a super-quick search software for smartphones and won the third prize at the Vietnamese Talents Award 2013. In his … [Read more...] about Startup founder shares experiences with Vietnamese Talent Awards

American-Vietnamese poet Ocean Vương is among the recipients of a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Born in HCM City, Ocean Vương came to the US at the age of two. Photo gq.com Vương, 30, and artist Cameron Rowland are the two youngest to be honoured by the foundation. The grant is worth US$625,000 to be distributed over five years. “I had to make sure they had the right person because you don’t want to cry and then have them say it was a mistake. But then the tears came,” Vương said in The New York Times. His first poem collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds also receives the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The collection’s Vietnamese version Trời Đêm Những Vết Thương Xuyên Thấu is published in Vietnam. Ocean Vương's first novel On Earth We're Briefly … [Read more...] about American-Vietnamese writer to be honoured

Bảo Hoài Nam, founder of Lavender Flower and Peony Home, will be the first and only Vietnamese artist joining the FTDWorldcup 2019, a top interfloral designer competition. Bảo Hoài Nam will be the first and only artist from Vietnam among 23 artists from 23 countries and territories participating at the FTDWorldcup 2019, a top floral designer competition to be held in the US in March. Begun in 1829, the Interflora World Cup is the world’s most prestigious event for the floral industry and design competition that showcases the most talented floral designers from around the globe. The international floral design competition is held every four to six years and hosted in different locations. Florists’ Transworld Delivery (FTD) is hosting this premier competition for the first time in the US since 1985. The competition, named FTD World Cup 2019 in recognition of the event’s host organisation, will include up to 23 countries and … [Read more...] about First Vietnamese artist to join top floral designer competition