MSTP News

Neil Chada (G2) placed first in graduate student oral presentations and Nada Elsayed (G2) received first place in graduate student poster presentations at SEMSS this year!   Dr. Matthew O’Neill (M4) was the winner of the Genomic and Precision Medicine Early Career Investigator Award Competition by the American Heart Association. Read More

A group of 11 Vanderbilt MSTP students attended the Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) at Emory this year and presented posters and gave oral presentations. Some of our students and members of our Leadership Team served on the breakout room panels as well. Congratulations to Nada Elsayed… Read More

Congratulations to Allie Lake (G3) and Bernie Mulvey who recently got married with many MSTP classmates in attendance!   MSTP students ran into alum Dr. Ayesha Muhammad (class of 2023) at the American Society of Human Genetics Conference this year in Washington DC.  … Read More

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor activation stimulates PKA-mediated phosphorylation of raptor and this contributes to the weight loss effect of liraglutide. Le TDV, Liu D, Besing GK, Raghavan R, Ellis BJ, Ceddia RP, Collins S, Ayala JE. Elife. 2023 Nov 6;12:e80944. Read More

Simone Herzberg (G3) received her NIH NRSA F31!… Read More

The interictal suppression hypothesis in focal epilepsy: network-level supporting evidence. Johnson GW, Doss DJ, Morgan VL, Paulo DL, Cai LY, Shless JS, Negi AS, Gummadavelli A, Kang H, Reddy SB, Naftel RP, Bick SK, Roberson SW, Dawant… Read More

by Camella Carlson (M2) Dr. Mary Ellen Koran is a 2016 graduate of the Vanderbilt MSTP and is back at Vanderbilt as an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences in the Nuclear Medicine division. As part of the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center, she is focused on… Read More

Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and President and CEO of Vanderbilt Uninversity Medical Center, met with MSTP students for our Lunches with Leaders series this month. Lunches with Leaders hosts leadership from VU, VUSM, and VUMC to sit down with a… Read More

Congratulations to Allie Lake (G2) for receiving her NIH NRSA F30!… Read More

Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Sequelae of Asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile Colonization in Children with Cystic Fibrosis. Reasoner SA, Fazili IF, Bernard R, Parnell JM, Sokolow AG, Thomsen KF, Edwards KM, Brown RF, Nicholson MR. J Cyst Fibros. 2022… Read More