Rate My Professor Kim Tieu

Dr. Kim Tieu is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences within the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work at Florida International University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, where his doctoral research investigated propargylamines as potential treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurological disorders. After practicing as a pharmacist, he pursued postdoctoral training at Columbia University to advance his PD expertise. In 2004, Dr. Tieu established his independent research laboratory at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Department of Environmental Medicine, securing funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to explore glia-neuron interactions, gene-environment interactions, and imbalanced mitochondrial fission/fusion in PD pathogenesis. In 2012, he was recruited to Plymouth University in England, where his lab received support from both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the UK Medical Research Council to study mitochondrial dynamics in PD. Since joining FIU in 2016, he leads the Parkinson’s Disease Research Laboratory, focusing on environmental toxicants, genetic mutations, and gene-environment interactions contributing to neuronal dysfunction and degeneration in PD, with the goal of developing disease-modifying therapies.