Dr. Le is an Associate Professor at the Department of Global Education and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan. She earned her M.D. at Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam in 2001 with the top-first score. From 2002 to 2007, she has awarded the Japanese Monbusho scholarship for a Ph.D. course at Osaka University, concerning HBV genotypes in Vietnam. From 2007-2014, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Osaka University for 2 years. She started working at the Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University from 2009 to present. She is interested in the pathophysiological role of hepatic stellate cells in liver fibrosis, steatohepatitis, cirrhosis, and cancer. Her works are concerned with the function, and mechanism action of Cytoglobin, a recently discovered globin by her professor, Norifumi Kawada. She uncovered the protective role of Cytoglobin in liver fibrosis and cancer which was registered 2 patents. She has published more than 30 peer-review papers including those in Nature Communications, Journal of Hepatology, Hepatology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, American Journal of Pathology, and Redox Biology; and 3 book chapters on Springer Nature, and Elsevier publishing groups. She has continuously got research grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science since 2013. She has awarded other grants from the Liver forum in Kyoto in 2015; the Osaka Medical Research Foundation for Intractable Diseases Grant in 2016, Award of Gilead Science Research Scholar in Liver Diseases Asia, 2019. Currently, her research interests fall into the production and application of Cytoglobin as a therapeutic target for liver fibrosis and cancer. Education and International Cooperation: She is currently the instructor for 5 doctoral students (6 graduated up to date). She is the liaison for educational and research activities between Osaka Metropolitan University's Department of Hepatology and: Ohio State University; New York Medical College; Stanford University; University of Antwerp, Belgium; University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Hanoi Medical University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 108 Military Central Hospital, Saint-Paul General Hospital, and VinMec International Hospital.

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