MSTP News

by Leigh Ann Gardner (MSTP Senior Grants Manager) December 1: Physician, politician, and anthropologist Te Rangi Hīroa or Te Rangihīroa (also known as Sir Peter Henry Buck) died in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 1, 1951. Born in c. 1877 in New Zealand with Māori descent on… Read More

Congratulations to Jeewoo Kim (G3) for winning the Best in Show Poster Award at the 2024 Fall Clinical and Translational Science Awards Meeting!   Congratulations to Landon Clark (G1) for being inducted into Gold Humanism Honor Society! The mission of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) is to… Read More

    Another successful MSTP Winter Chili Party! The wellness committee had crockpots of never ending chili and a table full of snacks to fuel students as they study and work.   Our Lunches with Leaders series continued this month with Dean Donald Brady, Senior Associate Dean… Read More

by Ghassan Makhoul (G2) Medical Scientist Training Program: University of Kentucky College of Medicine PhD Research: The role of APOE E4 allele in altered metabolic pathways contributing to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Hometown: Lexington, Kentucky Favorite Spot in Nashville: Yazoo Brewery, lots of… Read More

As she approaches graduation, M4 Thao Le, Ph.D. reflects on finding her way and unlocking her passions at VUSM By Kyra Letsinger M4 MSTP student Thao Do Vy Le, Ph.D., was always ready to take risks. From a young age, when it came to new opportunities, she was not… Read More

Dr. Lourdes Estrada (MSTP Associate Director), her husband Larry, and their sweet pup Sadie just finished logging for their log cabin. Next comes peeling and stacking!   John Shelley (G4) had a neighborhood block party thanks to our winter storm!   Congratulations to Stephanie Cajigas (G4) and Christopher Gabriel… Read More

Mark Petrovic (G1) received an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship!… Read More

by Jack Trapani (G1) To kick off the new year, the MSTP Wellness Committee hosted MSTP Seminar on Wednesday, January 3rd. Titled “Making Space for Your Personal Life,” Drs. Ben Ho Park, Brian Grieb, Nathaniel Bloodworth, Jeffrey Schmeckpeper, Celestine Wanjalla, and Jean Wassenaar spoke as panelists. They each gave students… Read More

Approximating Projections of Conformational Boltzmann Distributions with AlphaFold2 Predictions: Opportunities and Limitations. Brown BP, Stein RA, Meiler J, Mchaourab HS. J Chem Theory Comput. 2024 Jan 12. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01081. Online ahead of print. Protein thermodynamics is intimately… Read More

  The annual MSTP Winter Chili Party hosted by the MSTP Wellness Committee was another big success! Full of chili, a giant charcuterie board, bluegrass music, and white elephant present exchanges, everyone had a great time! Thank you to Kimmy Bress (G2), Kevin Zhang (G1), Bryn Sierra (MSTP Program… Read More