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Meet the Students in the MSTP Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Jun. 27, 2018— This summer the Vanderbilt MSTP is hosting 6 undergraduate students as part of our MSTP Summer Undergraduate Research Program. This summer program is designed to expose students from diverse backgrounds to the career of a physician-scientist and help prepare them to be competitive future applicants for MD/PhD programs. These students are on campus for...
Words of Wisdom from the Vanderbilt MSTP 2018 Graduating Class
Jun. 27, 2018—We asked our recent graduates to pass along words of wisdom to the our MSTP students still in training. Here is what they had to say. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Mentor over project. Fail, Fail, Fail – it’s the only way to learn. Repetition is the branding iron of knowledge. Be honest with everyone,...
Meet the Vanderbilt MSTP Incoming Class of 2018!
Jun. 27, 2018—The Vanderbilt MSTP is excited to introduce the incoming class of 2018, who started the program orientation on June 19th. They hail from all over the world, and we are delighted to have such a diverse group of people join our program. Welcome, new M1s! (Above from left to right. Back row – Matt Loberg, Donald Okoye, Emily Chu, Seth Reasoner,...
MSTPublications: June 2018
Jun. 27, 2018—Congratulations to all of our MSTP students on their successful publications! Take a look at the great work our students are doing. First Author Ph.D. Research: Learning Implicit Brain MRI Manifolds with Deep Learning. Bermudez C, Plassard AJ, Davis TL, Newton AT, Resnick SM, Landman BA. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2018 Mar;10574. pii: 105741L. doi: 10.1117/12.2293515....
Honors and Awards – June 2018
Jun. 27, 2018—We love to recognize the exciting professional accomplishments of our Vanderbilt MSTP students! Congratulations to Jack Walker (G2) and Benjamin Brown (G1) on receiving F30 NRSA fellowships!
Students Inspire Young Scientists through the 2018 “Mini-MSTP”!
May. 30, 2018—by Krystian Kozek (G4) This May, the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) hosted 80 students from Dickson County schools and 80 students from LEAD Academy Southeast in Nashville for a one-day crash-course on what it means to be a physician-scientist. The Miniature Medical Scientist Training Program, aka the Mini-MSTP, is an outreach event made...
Honors and Awards – May 2018
May. 29, 2018—Congratulations to Paula Smith (G1) for receiving an award for her poster presentation at the VICC annual retreat on May 3, 2018! Congratulations to Sumeeth Jonathan (G3) for receiving the Best Poster Award for his abstract at the 2018 International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound! Congratulations to the following MSTP mentors for their recent accomplishments!...
Life in the MSTP – May 2018
May. 29, 2018—Congratulations to Carter and Alex Sundermann (G3) on the birth of their baby girl, Emery Clare, born on May 22, 2018 weighing 6 lbs. 13 oz.! Maggie Grau (M1) and Matthew McBride married in their hometown of Chardon, Ohio on April 28. The MSTP M1s joined them to celebrate! On Tuesday, May 29 the Vanderbilt MSTP celebrated “halftime”...
Alumni Profile: Al Powers, M.D., Ph.D. (’12)
May. 29, 2018—by Lizzie Hale (G1) Al Powers, M.D., Ph.D., graduated from the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2012. He is originally from the New Haven area, was a Yale undergraduate, and returned after graduating from Vanderbilt to complete a research-track psychiatric residency at Yale University School of Medicine. He will be joining the Yale University Department of Psychiatry...
MSTPublications: May 2018
May. 29, 2018—Congratulations to all of our MSTP students on their successful publications! Take a look at the great work our students are doing. First Author Original Research: Heterozygous loss of TSC2 alters p53 signaling and human stem cell reprogramming. Armstrong LC, Westlake G, Snow JP, Cawthon B, Armour E, Bowman AB, Ess KC. Hum Mol Genet. 2017 Dec 1;26(23):4629-4641....