Thu Minh Nguyen holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Health Law and Policy from the University of Toronto, a Civil Law (LL.B.) degree from the Université de Montréal, and a B.Sc. degree in Physical Therapy from McGill University. In 2009, she was a fellow in the Canadian Institute for Health Research training program in Health Law and Policy. During her Bachelor studies in law, she also spent time in France at the Université Panthéon d'Assas (Paris II) studying Comparative Law.

Her work focuses primarily on the legal, social and ethical issues relating to stem cell research, cloning and regenerative medicine. She also has an interest in issues in reproductive health law, particularly, in the legal, ethical and social issues surrounding emerging reproductive technologies such as prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.