Anh Phu

Anh was born in Vietnam and moved to San Francisco, California at the age of 11 with his family. Anh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology. He then spent the next three years working in Dr. Robert Raffai’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco studying macrophage immunometabolism and microRNAs in atherosclerosis and cardiometabolic disease. His research interests focus on investigating the mechanisms and impact of immune cell’s metabolism and inflammation on chronic inflammatory diseases. His other interests outside of the laboratory include public health projects and serving the underserved communities.

Anh finds it oddly relaxing spending time in the lab to do cell and tissue culture and take care of his experimental mice. Besides that, he enjoys being in the kitchen to cook Vietnamese dishes. In his free time, he also likes to play basketball, soccer, and badminton.