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Save the Date: 2024 BRET Winter Showcase
Sep. 4, 2024—Join us for an evening of music, talent, and fun for the 6th Annual BRET Winter Showcase! Save the Date for December 12, 2024.
2024 Basic Sciences Dean’s Award Winners Announced
Aug. 5, 2024—The School of Medicine Basic Sciences awarded ten graduate students the 2024 Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. These graduate students were recognized for their high academic and scientific achievement and for the originality, significance, and rigor of their dissertation research. “The biomedical sciences attract graduate students who dedicate themselves with unwavering focus...
BRET’s annual career symposium helps students explore a variety of biomedical career paths
Aug. 3, 2024—On May 31, 2024, the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training’s ASPIRE Program hosted its yearly career symposium, bringing together biomedical science professionals, including basic sciences alums, to speak about their jobs and share their diverse career pathways with more than 200 attending biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This year’s theme, “A Kaleidoscope...
CBMS Supplemental Grant Aimed to Enhance Laboratory Safety Practices
Jun. 25, 2024—Given the occurrence of tragic accidents and near-misses at research institutions across the country, cultivating a culture of laboratory safety in academic institutions has been a pressing concern for governmental funding agencies. Thanks to a training grant supplement from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded last year, Vanderbilt campus partners collaborated to execute...
BRET 360º
Nov. 7, 2023—The BRET office publishes an annual report titled, BRET 360°, to summarize our accomplishments and ongoing projects for internal and external audiences interested in our work. We invite you to learn about our efforts to enhance our students’ development, support our students’ training, and serve the needs of our faculty in the biomedical research community at Vanderbilt...
Career Outcomes Publication
Oct. 26, 2023—The BRET Outcomes Team and the ASPIRE Program are proud to share their paper, now in FASEB BioAdvances, analyzing the progression of career outcomes in our Vanderbilt BRET PhD alumni, “From goal to outcome: Analyzing the progression of biomedical sciences PhD careers in a longitudinal study using an expanded taxonomy.”
ASPIRE Grant Repository
Aug. 20, 2023—The ASPIRE team maintains a repository of funded grant applications written by Vanderbilt graduate students. Access is restricted to Vanderbilt graduate students who are currently writing a grant application. Currently the repository contains example F31 NIH NRSA , AHA, and NSF GRFP grant applications. If you are a VU student who is interested in viewing the repository, please fill out the request...
BRET Alumni Outcomes Research
Mar. 17, 2022—The mission of the BRET Office of Outcomes Research is to generate insights about the effectiveness of biomedical research training programs and the impact our alumni have in the world. We use rigorous survey design, data collection, and analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of PhD and postdoctoral training programs and track alumni career outcomes, with...
IMSD
Aug. 15, 2018—The Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) at Vanderbilt University exists to increase the number of PhDs awarded to graduate students in biomedical research who are underrepresented in science. The program is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and has been in existence at Vanderbilt since 2000. Our approach is multi-faceted and emphasizes...