MSTP News

Congratulations to Nick Petersen (G3) for being awarded an F30 research grant! Congratulations to Aaron Lim (M4) on his abstract winning 1st place in the Scientific Trainee Prize at the Association of University Radiologists national meeting! Congratulations to Stephanie Cajigas (G2) on being awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented minority fellowship for… Read More

Introduction to the BioChemical Library (BCL): An Application-Based Open-Source Toolkit for Integrated Cheminformatics and Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery. Brown BP, Vu O, Geanes AR, Kothiwale S, Butkiewicz M, Lowe EW Jr, Mueller R, Pape R, Mendenhall J, Meiler J. Read More

by Avery Bogart (G1) On March 17, 2022, the Vanderbilt MSTP had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Karl Deisseroth for the Spring Physician-Scientist Speaker Series (PSSS) as part of his visit for the Discovery Lecture. Dr. Deisseroth is the DH Chen Professor of Bioengineering and… Read More

By Nowrin Chowdhury (G3) The Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) annual conference was hosted virtually by the Vanderbilt MSTP on January 29, 2022. SEMSS aims to bring together undergraduates, MD-PhD students, residents, and physician-scientists to provide information on the career path as well as foster mentorship, career building, and share… Read More

Integrating gene expression and clinical data to identify drug repurposing candidates for hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Wu P, Feng Q, Kerchberger VE, Nelson SD, Chen Q, Li B, Edwards TL, Cox NJ, Phillips EJ, Stein CM, Roden DM, Denny JC, Wei WQ. Read More

Congratulations to Nick Petersen (G3) for receiving second place in Oral Presentations at SEMSS and for receiving an APSA travel award! Zack Williams (G3) was interviewed by an autism news source about an initiative he led for the international society for autism research. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Ben Reisman (M4) on winning an abstract award at FASEB Hematologic Malignancies Conference! Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Lim (M4) on having an abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the Association of University Radiologists Annual meeting! Rachel Brown (G5) won Best Long… Read More

Background: I was born and raised in Nashville, in L.A., also fondly known as “Lower Antioch”. I attended college in Mississippi (Mississippi University for Women) and started a career as an archivist. I lived in Central Illinois for five years while my husband was in graduate school. We… Read More

HDAC inhibitors stimulate LIFR when it is repressed by hypoxia or PTHrP in breast cancer. Edwards CM, Clements ME, Vecchi LA 3rd, Johnson JA, Johnson RW. J Bone Oncol. 2021 Dec 1;31:100407. doi: 10.1016/j.jbo.2021.100407. eCollection 2021 Dec. Breast cancer… Read More

by Donald Okoye (G2) Sept. 30, 2021   “The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten; for if you are a good person, even after death, your grave is loved” -African proverb The past couple of weeks have been especially difficult for many of us. In… Read More