Le Hoang

Dr. Hoang Le is a neuroscientist working on roles of the innate immunity on Alzheimer’s disease. He received his BS degree from Hanoi University of Pharmacy in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2009. He then moved to Seoul, South Korea to pursue his doctoral research as a Ph.D student at the Department of Biochemistry, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University under the mentorship of Professor Kyu-Won Kim, a leading scientist in South Korea and an internationally recognized researcher in Neuro-Vascular Unit (NVU) and Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB). After completing his Ph.D work in 2017, Dr. Hoang Le joined Professor Rudolph E. Tanzi’ laboratory at the Department of Neurology, Massachusettes General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral researcher. His current research focuses on microglia of the innate immunity in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Specifically, he is now investigating roles of CD33 and Trem2 proteins, which are exclusively expressed on microglia, in the Alzheimer's disease.