MSTP News

Single-Cell Identification of Melanoma Biomarkers in Circulating Tumor Cells Fankhauser R, Chang M, Garrison Z, Berryman R, Lucero OM, Fuiten A, DePatie N, Seifert H, Kulkarni RP. Cancers. 2022; 14(19):4921. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14194921 The current standard for investigating tumors is surgical… Read More

by Mark Petrovic (M2) Dr. Jean Wassenaar, M.D. Ph.D. is a PGY-6 Cardiology Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Physician Scientist Training Program. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, Dr. Wassenaar received her undergraduate degree in bioengineering from Johns Hopkins University and worked for Epic Systems during her gap year before matriculating… Read More

The G4 class celebrated their halfway milestone that was postponed due to COVID complete with receiving their M.P. honorary degrees! Congratulations G4s!      Kimberly Bress (G1), Neil Chada (G1), Kaitlin McKernan (G1) were inducted to the Gold Humanism Honor Society by their peers! The mission of the Gold Humanism… Read More

by Jen Peek (G1) Dr. Matthew Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine within the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and is the newest Faculty Advisor of Stahlman Thomas. He trained in the Vanderbilt MSTP, where he completed his PhD in Pharmacology with Lee Limbird… Read More

Mariana Byndloss received her D.V.M. and a Ph.D. from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis, Mariana started her lab in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2018. … Read More

Impaired Dynamic Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca Buffering in Autosomal Dominant CPVT2. Wleklinski MJ, Kryshtal DO, Kim K, Parikh SS, Blackwell DJ, Marty I, Iyer VR, Knollmann BC. Circ Res. 2022 Sep 14:101161CIRCRESAHA121320661. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.320661. Online ahead of print. Background:… Read More

     Congratulations to Nowrin Chowdhury (G4), Ansley Kunnath (G2), Eric Donahue (G5), Jen Peek (G2), and Andrew Boal (G4) for receiving NIH NRSA F30s all in one record breaking week!   Congratulations to Jerome Arceneaux (Meharry Medical College MD-PhD Program)… Read More

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli subverts mitochondrial metabolism to enable intracellular bacterial pathogenesis in urinary tract infection. Beebout CJ, Robertson GL, Reinfeld BI, Blee AM, Morales GH, Brannon JR, Chazin WJ, Rathmell WK, Rathmell JC, Gama V, Hadjifrangiskou M. Read More

Allie Lake (G2) was selected to give a talk at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics conference in Florence, Italy!   Ansley Kunnath (G2) was awarded a grant from VICTR for a clinical trial that she’s leading! Stephanie… Read More

Allele-specific activation, enzyme kinetics, and inhibitor sensitivities of EGFR exon 19 deletion mutations in lung cancer. Brown BP, Zhang YK, Kim S, Finneran P, Yan Y, Du Z, Kim J, Hartzler AL, LeNoue-Newton ML, Smith AW, Meiler J, Lovly CM. Read More