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Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences welcomes the next generation of biomedical scientists
Oct. 13, 2025—Every August, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences opens its doors to a new cohort of graduate students embarking on the transformative journey toward a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences. This year’s incoming class of 42 students in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program and the Quantitative and Chemical Biology Program began their Vanderbilt experience with a week of...
Congrats, 2025 Dean’s Awardees of Excellence in Graduate Research
Jun. 23, 2025—The School of Medicine Basic Sciences has named ten graduate students as recipients of the 2025 Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. This prestigious honor recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding academic performance and produced dissertation research marked by originality, significance, and scientific rigor.
Academy for Excellence in Education announces 2025 award winners and new members
Jun. 7, 2025—The Academy for Excellence in Education Early Impact Award recognizes an early career faculty member for positively impacting medical education and demonstrating a commitment to the field. Madhvi Venkatesh, DPhil, is the 2025 year’s award winner. Read more.
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...
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...