Nature Masterclasses provide professional development training for researchers via bite-sized, on-demand courses. The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center provides paid access to the Nature Masterclasses on-demand training courses for all Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty, staff, and trainees.
Courses include:
- Advancing Your Scientific Presentations
- Creating Successful Research Posters
- Data Analysis: Conducting and Troubleshooting
- Data Analysis: Planning and Preparing
- Effective Science Communication
- Experiments: From Idea to Design
- Finding Funding Opportunities
- Focus on Peer Review
- Getting an Academic Research Position
- Interpreting Scientific Results
- Introduction to Collaboration
- Leading a Collaboration
- Managing Research Data to Unlock its Full Potential
- Narrative Tools for Researchers
- Networking for Researchers
- Participating in a Collaboration
- Persuasive Grant Writing
- Publishing a Research Paper
- Research Integrity: Publication Ethics
- Writing a Research Paper
- Writing and Publishing a Review Paper
To access Nature Masterclasses:
- Go to https://masterclasses.nature.com/ and select the Register icon on the top right.
- Enter your institutional email, set a password, and click ‘Register’.
- A message will prompt you to check your inbox for an email from Online Services. Click on the confirmation link in the email. You will be redirected to the Nature Masterclasses
- You can now navigate to the courses. Select the ‘Menu’ button in the top left corner of the Nature Masterclasses page and then click on any course name.
- Once you have created an account and go to log in during future visits, use the “Regular Login” option, NOT the “Institutional Login” option.
For questions, contact Caroline Hartford at caroline.hartford@vumc.org.