Prior to joining PMV Pharma as Director of Research, Dr. Vu was a Research Leader at Roche Nutley where he spent 15 years working in small molecule oncology drug discovery. While at Roche, Dr. Vu was a key contributor to the discovery and development of Nutlins, small molecule MDM2 antagonists which target the p53 pathway. He has extensively published on p53 biology and drug discovery, and is an inventor on 14 issued US patents.
Dr. Vu received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine.