Virulence profile: Hinh Ly
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I was born in South Vietnam a few years before the end of the Vietnam War. My memories of childhood were mostly about what happened after the war—it was a hard time, just to put it lightly! I lived with my parents and siblings in a small rice-farming village in the Mekong delta, which used to serve the people there well until everything was taken away in an attempt to advance the post-warMarxist socialist principles and policies. I grew up not knowing that there’s anything beyond a high school education. My family and I immigrated to the US when I was 16 years old. Despite not knowing much English, I managed to complete a high school education in Southern California in 3 years before entering the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (MMG). Upon graduation, I decided to continue to my education there and completed a Master of Arts degree in the MMG Department beforemoving to theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) to complete my doctoral thesis work in the department of Microbiology and Immunology (in 2 years). I moved back to theWest Coast to carry out my postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and served as a special postdoctoral fellow of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America and on the NIHT32HIV training grant.
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