Annually, the University of Oxford awards the The Vice Chancellors’ Fund. This funding scheme is awarded to promising students in the final stages of their DPhil, augmenting their research costs and providing an opportunity to perform experiments or analyse data that would be otherwise outside the resources of their project. For the 2011/12 academic year, this prestigious award has been granted here at OUCRU-Vietnam to Ms. My Phan of the enteric infections group. Under the supervision of Dr Stephen Baker, Ms Phan was granted the award to develop and complete her work on the molecular epidemiology of rotavirus infections in children in Ho Chi Minh City.