MSTP News

Congratulations to our 2022 MSTP Graduates! The table below lists their next steps.  Direct Costs Paid to Vanderbilt1st Year Fall / Spring / Summer (12 months)2nd Year Fall / Spring (9 months) Tuition$48,156$24,076 Student Services Fee*$791$676 Student Health Fee*$1,012$882 Year 1 Transcript… Read More

Lizzie Flook at her Orientation Welcome Picnic in 2015. Photo by Joe Howell After seven years in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Dr. Lizzie (Hale) Flook prepares to graduate with her MD this Friday. The University of Miami alumna, who played collegiate volleyball,… Read More

  Members of the G3 class traveled to Puerto Rico to attend classmate Nick Petersen’s wedding! Congratulations Nick and Josh!   Kelsey McNew (M4) worked with resident Laura Armstrong (PhD ’17, MD ’19, Vandy Peds Neuro PGY3) on neurology this month… Read More

Nowrin Chowdhury (G3) was awarded VI4 Trainee of the Year! Dr. Ben Reisman (M4) was awarded the Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine by the Department of Medicine!   Michael Rudloff (G3) and Nowrin Chowdhury (G3) both won poster awards for  AAI Immunology 2022!… Read More

by Camille Wang (G3) From April 8 – 10, MSTP students attended the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago, IL. The conference was attended by medical and graduate trainees, resident physicians and fellows, attendings, and program directors. It was a wonderful way to get to know other trainees and faculty from… Read More

Temporal lobe epilepsy lateralisation and surgical outcome prediction using diffusion imaging. Johnson GW, Cai LY, Narasimhan S, González HFJ, Wills KE, Morgan VL, Englot DJ. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2022 Mar 28:jnnp-2021-328185. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2021-328185. Read More

Congratulations to Nick Petersen (G3) for being awarded an F30 research grant! Congratulations to Aaron Lim (M4) on his abstract winning 1st place in the Scientific Trainee Prize at the Association of University Radiologists national meeting! Congratulations to Stephanie Cajigas (G2) on being awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented minority fellowship for… Read More

Introduction to the BioChemical Library (BCL): An Application-Based Open-Source Toolkit for Integrated Cheminformatics and Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery. Brown BP, Vu O, Geanes AR, Kothiwale S, Butkiewicz M, Lowe EW Jr, Mueller R, Pape R, Mendenhall J, Meiler J. Read More

by Avery Bogart (G1) On March 17, 2022, the Vanderbilt MSTP had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Karl Deisseroth for the Spring Physician-Scientist Speaker Series (PSSS) as part of his visit for the Discovery Lecture. Dr. Deisseroth is the DH Chen Professor of Bioengineering and… Read More

By Nowrin Chowdhury (G3) The Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) annual conference was hosted virtually by the Vanderbilt MSTP on January 29, 2022. SEMSS aims to bring together undergraduates, MD-PhD students, residents, and physician-scientists to provide information on the career path as well as foster mentorship, career building, and share… Read More