MSTP

By: Leigh Ann Gardner (MSTP Senior Grants Manager) Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, image courtesy of Association for Women in Science. September 5: Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, founder of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, was born in Panama in 1920 to a family of physicians. After immigrating to the United States in… Read More

William R. Maples. Image Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine and Florida Gulf Coats University Library Archives and Special Collections By: Leigh Ann Gardner August 7: Forensic anthropologist William R. Maples, known for leading the team that identified the remains of the Romanov family and helped solve the murder of civil rights leader… Read More

Submitted by: Hannah Giannini, G2 I started doing yoga the summer before freshman year of college because I was bored after I got home in the afternoons after working my summer job. Within a month, I fell in love with it. My yoga made me feel independent because I was… Read More

  Atlee Witt Changes in functional connectivity in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis spinal cord measured via region-based and data-driven analyses. Witt AA, Combes AJE, Sengupta A, Zhang X, Stubblefield S, McKnight CD, McGonigle T, McGrath M, Stewart I, Sweeney G, Prock LE, Houston D, Vandekar S, O’Grady KP, Rogers B,… Read More

By Kaitlin McKernan (G4)   MSTP students, faculty and staff gather at Leadership Workshop II. The MSTP held its 10th Biennial Leadership Workshop II on Saturday, August 16th, 2025. Leadership Workshop II (LWII) is attended by upper-year MSTP students (G4/G5+ and M4s), and it is a structured curriculum aimed at… Read More

Eskind Biomedical Library is a building that wears many hats. Beyond just a library, it’s a classroom, a gathering space, a historical archive, and a place where administrative magic happens. But EBL became something else entirely when engaged M4s Simone and Thomas Ueland asked Senior Associate Dean for Medical… Read More

Lizzie Flook at her Orientation Welcome Picnic in 2015. Photo by Joe Howell After seven years in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Dr. Lizzie (Hale) Flook prepares to graduate with her MD this Friday. The University of Miami alumna, who played collegiate volleyball,… Read More

by Emma Mattson From Big-Little Reveal to College Cup, the four med school colleges get a lot of well-deserved publicity. But less attention gets paid to an equally crucial support system for our MD PhD students: the MSTP colleges. Maybe you’re an M2 student wondering if the transition to research… Read More