MSTP News

     Congratulations to Nowrin Chowdhury (G4), Ansley Kunnath (G2), Eric Donahue (G5), Jen Peek (G2), and Andrew Boal (G4) for receiving NIH NRSA F30s all in one record breaking week!   Congratulations to Jerome Arceneaux (Meharry Medical College MD-PhD Program)… Read More

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli subverts mitochondrial metabolism to enable intracellular bacterial pathogenesis in urinary tract infection. Beebout CJ, Robertson GL, Reinfeld BI, Blee AM, Morales GH, Brannon JR, Chazin WJ, Rathmell WK, Rathmell JC, Gama V, Hadjifrangiskou M. Read More

Allie Lake (G2) was selected to give a talk at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics conference in Florence, Italy!   Ansley Kunnath (G2) was awarded a grant from VICTR for a clinical trial that she’s leading! Stephanie… Read More

Allele-specific activation, enzyme kinetics, and inhibitor sensitivities of EGFR exon 19 deletion mutations in lung cancer. Brown BP, Zhang YK, Kim S, Finneran P, Yan Y, Du Z, Kim J, Hartzler AL, LeNoue-Newton ML, Smith AW, Meiler J, Lovly CM. Read More

The Vanderbilt MSTP is excited to introduce the incoming class of 2022, who started the program orientation on June 13th. They hail from all over the world, and we are delighted to have such a diverse group of people join our program. Welcome, new M1s! Stirling Argabright (he/him) Hometown: Annapolis, MD… Read More

MTG16 regulates colonic epithelial differentiation, colitis, and tumorigenesis by repressing E protein transcription factors. Brown RE, Jacobse J, Anant SA, Blunt KM, Chen B, Vega PN, Jones CT, Pilat JM, Revetta F, Gorby AH, Stengel KR, Choksi YA, Palin K, Piazuelo MB, Washington… Read More

   Congratulations to G3s Stephanie Cajigas, Yasminye Pettway, and Emilie Fisher for receiving the Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement! Congratulations to Dr. Kelsey McNew (M4) for receiving the Vanderbilt Diabetes Scholar Award at Vanderbilt Diabetes Day! Congratulations to Dr. Ayaka Sugiura (M4) for receiving the AAI young investigator award at Southeastern… Read More

By Lourdes Estrada, PhD (MSTP Associate Director) My Dad, Jose Antonio Estrada Padilla (left), shaking hands with the then Governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro Rosselló González (right). In 2008, I was in Toronto on the last day of a Mathematical Modeling of Cancer workshop I was… Read More

Yearly1st Term2nd Term Tuition$70,900$35,450$35,450 Student Health Insurance ‡$4,074$2,037$2,037 International or MSTP Student Health Insurance ‡$4,314$2,157$2,157 Student Services Fee ‡$791$396$395 Student Health Fee ‡$1,012$506$506 Transcript ‡ (new students)$100$100        … Read More

Simone Herzberg (left), Rachel Brown, PhD (middle), Maggie Axelrod, PhD (right) Simone Herzberg, Rachel Brown, PhD, and Margaret Axelrod, PhD, have been selected as recipients of the competitive 2022-23 International P.E.O. Scholar Award. The P.E.O. Scholar Award is a one-time, competitive merit-based $20,000 award that honors academic excellence and… Read More