MSTP News

by Yasminye Pettway (G3) The Vanderbilt MSTP High School Mentoring Program was founded in 2020 by Thao Le (G5). The program’s mission is to provide high school students from underrepresented backgrounds with exposure to careers in medicine and biomedical research as well as opportunities… Read More

Yasminye Pettway (G3) received her NIH NRSA F30!   Seth Reasoner (G3) received his NIH NRSA F30 AND won a best poster award at the annual Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology meeting!  … Read More

Correlated depressive symptoms within seroconcordant, expectant partners living with HIV in Zambézia Province, Mozambique: a cross-sectional study. Sack DE, Matino A, Graves E, Emilio A, Shepherd BE, De Schacht C, Audet CM. AIDS Care. 2022 Dec 6:1-9. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2022.2151558. Read More

Congratulations to the G3 class who recently celebrated their Halftime Party!   Monika Grabowska (G2) received her first funding support from MPRINT for her pilot study, titled “Developing and Mapping Pediatric Phecodes” AND she received her F30!   Victor Borza (G2) received… Read More

T cells specific for α-myosin drive immunotherapy-related myocarditis. Axelrod ML, Meijers WC, Screever EM, Qin J, Carroll MG, Sun X, Tannous E, Zhang Y, Sugiura A, Taylor BC, Hanna A, Zhang S, Amancherla K, Tai W, Wright JJ, Wei SC,… Read More

by Kevin Zhang (M2) and Kaitlin McKernan (G1) The Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) annual conference was hosted by The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) MSTP on November 19th-20th. SEMSS is an American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) regional meeting that aims to bring together… Read More

by Megan Tigue (G2) On the evening of Monday, November 7th, Vanderbilt’s chapter of the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) held its fall Physician Scientist Speaker Series. This year APSA hosted a cocktail hour and dinner followed by a wonderful talk from Vanderbilt neurologist Matthew Schrag,… Read More

by Jeewooo Kim (G1) Dr. John M. Stafford is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. He is also the Associate Director for Clinical Education for the Vanderbilt MSTP. His lab focuses on obesity and… Read More

MSTP Lunches with Leaders has started again! Lunches with Leaders is a great opportunity for a small group of students to meet with institutional leadership. Recent leaders have included Dr. Charlene Dewey (Assistant Dean for Educator Development, Director of the Educator Development Program, Director of the Center for… Read More

On Saturday, October 1 the Vanderbilt MSTP participated in the JDRF One Walk in Nashville to honor our friend and colleague Zachary Jones who passed away last fall. Thank you to those who participated. Read More