ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Long H. Nguyen, MD, MS, is a formally trained computational gastroenterologist, an Assistant in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Core Member of the Mongan Institute at MGH, and faculty at the Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center. His research program focuses on the care of patients with gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses and the conduct of patient-oriented translational research. He has a broad background in epidemiologic methods and clinical research with a joint M.D./M.S. from the Stanford University School of Medicine where original scholarly pursuits focused on racial and ethnic health disparities. Subsequently, he joined the MGH for subspecialty training in gastroenterology. Under the joint tutelage of Professor Andrew T. Chan, a thought leading GI epidemiologist, and Professor Curtis Huttenhower, a renowned expert in computational methods to interrogate gut microbial ecology, he engaged in an intensive five-year post-doctoral fellowship to hone the skills needed to study large-scale epidemiologic cohorts and investigate the taxonomic and enzymatic activity of human gut microbial communities.
Since establishing an independent and competitively funded research program (NIDDK K23, American Gastroenterological Association Research Scholars Award, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Career Development Award), he has developed a complementary program to explore the risk factors and social determinants of COVID-19 by rapidly developing and implementing a mobile framework for conducting population-scale investigations of an evolving and fast-moving pandemic. Dr. Nguyen has a long-standing interest in original scholarly work with publications dating back to 2003 and a sustained track record of productivity that includes 55 peer-reviewed manuscripts (17 first-authored) and an additional seven invited commentaries or textbook chapters.