Honors And Awards

Photo: Anne Rayner Congratulations to our 2026 Vanderbilt MSTP Graduating Class!! Learn more about their next steps here! They were honored with numerous awards as outlined below. Congratulations to Dr. Mark Rusznak for receiving the Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine! This award recognizes graduating… Read More

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

Excellence In Leadership Award Congratulations to Kyle Enriquez (G4) for receiving the Excellence in Leadership Award which honors a graduate student who made a significant impact on their community through service and has inspired others to do the same. 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

AMSER Henry Goldberg Medical Student Award Atlee Witt (G3) received the American Association of Radiologists’ 2026 AMSER Henry Goldberg Medical Student Award for the paper, “Imaging the Past: Dental Pathologies and Cardiovascular Disease in Egyptian Mummified Remains”. Read More

Vanderbilt MSTP 2026 Residency Match Student NameResidency SpecialtyResidency Institution Adegboye (Kresge), HaileyInternal MedicineUniversity of Wisconsin Bergman, RileyInternal MedicineVanderbilt University Medical Center Bledsoe, XaverPediatricsChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia Bogart, AveryObstetrics and GynecologyNorthwestern University Donahue, EricOphthalmologySaint Louis University Doss, DerekNeurosurgeryVanderbilt University Medical Center Fisher-Gupta, EmiliePediatricsRady Children's Hospital-San Diego Grabowska, MonikaInternal MedicineVanderbilt University Medical… Read More

Matching into Ophthalmology at St. Louis University Congratulations to Dr. Eric Donahue (M4) for matching into Ophthalmology at St. Louis University!             Kyle Enriquez (G4) describes his research for the Everyday Scientist project    … 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

Kevin Zhang (G3) was selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience, one of just 16 graduate students and postdocs chosen nationwide!… Read More

Best of AJHG and HGG Advances 2024-2025: American Society of Human Genetics Xavier Bledsoe’s (M4) PhD thesis project “A transcriptomic atlas of the human brain reveals genetically determined aspects of neuropsychiatric health” has been selected by the American Society of Human Genetics in the special volume, which showcases the… Read More