Megan Williams

Congratulations to Arlene Garcia (G4) for winning the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2026 Midwest C. elegans Meeting held at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan! Congratulations to Anas Reda (G2) for receiving the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral Program from the Canadian Institutes… Read More

DermIDS: Dermatology imaging data structure for scalable and interoperable AI systems. Cho C, McNeil AJ, Jiang B, Saunders AM, Rudravaram G, Liu Y, Moyer D, Dawant BM, Landman BA, Tkaczyk ER. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2026 Feb;13930:139300V. doi: 10.1117/12.3085989. Epub 2026 Apr 2. Read More

One of the best parts of science is inspiring the next generation of investigators. Through the Mini MSTP, our students welcomed ~140 elementary and middle school students from LEAD Academy and Dickson County Middle Schools on May 4 and 12. During their visit, students explored hands-on activities including… Read More

by Thomas Clarity (G2) The APSA Committee recently welcomed back Vanderbilt MSTP alumnus Sameer Chopra, MD, PhD (Class of 2009) as this year’s keynote alumni speaker during MSTP Seminar. Dr. Chopra currently serves as Vice President of Clinical Development at Werewolf Therapeutics, a Boston-area biotechnology company… Read More

Student NameProgram (Mentor)Dissertation Title Kyle Enriquez, PhDMicrobe-Host Interactions (Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH)OG0523 proteins act as bacterial and host determinants of Staphylococcus aureus growth and infection dynamics Drew Kittleson, PhDNeuroscience (Julia Sheffield, PhD)Functional Activation and Connectivity of the Posterior Insula during Interoceptive Processing in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders Chloe Cho, PhDBiomedical Engineering (Bennett… Read More

MSTPets: Meet Emil Dominguez’s (M1) New Kitten… Read More

This past weekend, Nashville, and the surrounding areas experienced catastrophic and widespread damage due to snow and ice from Winter Storm Fern, leaving hundreds of thousands without power for extended periods. This storm has had lasting impacts on our community. The MSTP Leadership Team encourages any students in need of… Read More

Congratulations to Katherine Caja (G1) for being elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS)! The mission GHHS is to recognize individuals who are exemplars of humanistic patient care and who can serve as role models, mentors, and leaders in medicine and students were selected for their commitment to… Read More

By Jared Rhodes, reprinted with permission from “Lab Coats and Lanyards”, the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Trainee Newsletter Megan Tigue is a fifth-year PhD student in the Cancer Biology program and a seventh-year MD/PhD trainee at Vanderbilt University. She graduated from Colgate University in 2016 and began her training at Vanderbilt… Read More

Polygenic Variation Underlying Neutrophil Counts Modifies the Penetrance of Duffy-Null Neutropenia. Shelley JP, Shi M, Bastarache L, Chung CP, Mosley JD. Am J Hematol. 2025 Nov 20. doi: 10.1002/ajh.70144. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41267342 No abstract available. No abstract available Keywords:… Read More