Tags: Covid-19

On August 31, the journal “Chemical Society Reviews”, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, added a paper entitled: “The interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with host cells and antibodies: Experiment and Simulation”. The article was authored by scientists in Poland and Vietnam, the members of a research group led by Professor Mai Xuan Ly from the Institute of Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences...

On January 6, Assistant Professor Nguyen Duc Thanh, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Connecticut, gave a presentation entitled: “Smart biodegradable polymer at small scales for biomedical applications”, to lecturers and students from the DTU College of Medicine and Pharmacy. Professor Thanh is currently a member of the DTU Board of Trustees and regularly organizes events...

IFNSC 2022 is organized by the University of Social Sciences & Humanities (of the National University in Hanoi) with the financial support of Konrad–Adenauer–Stiftung Vietnam. Inspired by the multifaceted changes in life after the Covid-19 pandemic, and especially the economic crisis, heavy impacts on people’s physical and psychological health, impoverishment, and increasing societal division...

Due to staff shortages during the ongoing pandemic, medical, pharmacy and nursing students volunteered to step in and, on July 9th, sixty DTU Health Science students were chosen to assist at the Lien Chieu Health Center, where they helped the locals to complete medical declarations and procedures prior to vaccination.

When the COVID-19 pandemic became more prevalent, DTU immediately switched to online teaching and testing, to ensure the safety of students and faculty and avoid disruption. Even though the pandemic has impacted us all so severely for two years now, DTU has ensured that its 20 thousand students can continue their studies and exams on schedule, due to the university’s strategy and investments in online education...

DTU nursing volunteers were selected to support medical staff and law enforcement officers manning Covid-19 checkpoints in Hue, Quang Nam, and Danang. With the support of their families, the students wanted to do their best to help battle the virus....

Seeing how people’s health was so severely impacted in the initial days of virus infestation in Vietnam, Dr. Duong Tuan Linh, a DTU researcher, proposed an application built on artificial intelligence to diagnose Covid-19. With previous experience in the EfficientNet convolutional deep neural network project, he collected X-ray and CT images and developed a work plan...

During the Covid-19 pandemic and way into the future, a doctor’s mission never changes, it is to save people’s lives. That was repeated by Do The Bon, a GP student at DTU. In November 2000, Bon won first prize in a medical scholarship contest organized by the Ministries of Health and of Education & Training in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...

With their two initial versions, the DTU research group acquired the experience necessary to continue improving their DTU-Vent ventilator to version 3.0 with all the functionality of a professional medical ventilator, meeting the requirements for use in emergencies and to treat Covid-19 patients...