MSTP News

Integrating gene expression and clinical data to identify drug repurposing candidates for hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Wu P, Feng Q, Kerchberger VE, Nelson SD, Chen Q, Li B, Edwards TL, Cox NJ, Phillips EJ, Stein CM, Roden DM, Denny JC, Wei WQ. Read More

Congratulations to Nick Petersen (G3) for receiving second place in Oral Presentations at SEMSS and for receiving an APSA travel award! Zack Williams (G3) was interviewed by an autism news source about an initiative he led for the international society for autism research. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Ben Reisman (M4) on winning an abstract award at FASEB Hematologic Malignancies Conference! Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Lim (M4) on having an abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the Association of University Radiologists Annual meeting! Rachel Brown (G5) won Best Long… Read More

Background: I was born and raised in Nashville, in L.A., also fondly known as “Lower Antioch”. I attended college in Mississippi (Mississippi University for Women) and started a career as an archivist. I lived in Central Illinois for five years while my husband was in graduate school. We… Read More

HDAC inhibitors stimulate LIFR when it is repressed by hypoxia or PTHrP in breast cancer. Edwards CM, Clements ME, Vecchi LA 3rd, Johnson JA, Johnson RW. J Bone Oncol. 2021 Dec 1;31:100407. doi: 10.1016/j.jbo.2021.100407. eCollection 2021 Dec. Breast cancer… Read More

Machine Learning Prediction of Kidney Stone Composition Using Electronic Health Record-Derived Features. Abraham A, Kavoussi N, Sui W, Bejan C, Capra JA, Hsi R. J Endourol. 2021 Jul 27. doi: 10.1089/end.2021.0211. Online ahead of print. Aims: Noninvasive prediction of kidney stone composition could… Read More

by Emma Mattson From Big-Little Reveal to College Cup, the four med school colleges get a lot of well-deserved publicity. But less attention gets paid to an equally crucial support system for our MD PhD students: the MSTP colleges. Maybe you’re an M2 student wondering if the transition to research… Read More