2024 Asia Pacific & Japan Genotyping Webinar Series - Part 1: Speakers

Dr. Nam Sy Vo, Ph.D.
Role: Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder
Organisation: GeneStory JSC
Location: Vietnam

A comprehensive performance assessment of human genotyping arrays for analyzing polygenic risk scores among diverse populations
Dr. Nam Sy Vo is the Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder at GeneStory JSC, Vietnam, the Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Vingroup Big Data Institute, and an Affiliate Faculty at VinUniversity. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at The University of Chicago.

Dr. Vo has trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Memphis, USA.

Dr. Vo’s research interests focus on analysis and interpretation of large-scale biomedical data. Dr. Vo is currently leading the 1000 Vietnamese Genomes Project and various projects towards understanding disease risk and adverse drug reactions in Vietnamese population. His work has been applied to analyzing the world’s largest genomic datasets, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and published in prestigious journals such as Immunity (Cell).