MSTP

Jack Engel (M1) got engaged to Megan Carlesi. Congrats to Jack and Meg! The M1s helped Jack set up the venue for his proposal   The M1s and M2s had a blast playing family feud! We had our first CAB day on October 8th. Anvith Reddy (G2)… Read More

By Dr. Megan Willams (MSTP Assistant Director) Members of the Vanderbilt MSTP Leadership Team, Biomedical Research Education & Training (BRET) Office, and School of Medicine faculty attended the 2025 Biomedical Research Training Conference Hosted by the AAMC Group on Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) in Arlington, VA… Read More

by Sharon Fernandez (G3) Richard Merkhofer, Jr, MD, PhD is a PGY5 fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt. Although his current research focuses on tuberculosis, he has studied many different organisms throughout his career. In his first foray into research as an undergraduate student, he studied ferns… Read More

By Hannah Luviano (M1) Dr. Alex Linsalata, MD, PhD is Avery-Cohen’s newest PSTP Associate College Advisor. He is a PGY-5 Pulmonology and Critical Care Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Physician Scientist Training Program. His current research focuses on trying to understand how interstitial lung disease drives pulmonary hypertension. When Dr. Linsalata… Read More

Congratulations to Tristan Sealy (M1) for being elected VUSM Class president! Congratulations to Kimmy Bress (G4) on being named the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar and giving an awesome talk on her research! Congratulations to Max Van Belkum… Read More

By Avinth Reddy (G2) Reading this article, one might think that what I do all day is walking and/or running. This is in part true, because I try to walk ~30,000 steps a day. To do this, my day starts very early. I get up at 4:30 am and try… Read More

G2 Hike Members of the G2 class enjoyed a nice Labor Day weekend hiking adventure. It was an exciting hike filled with many firsts: Anvith’s first unpaved hike, Casey and Dayle’s first time at Sonic, and Dani’s first yellowjacket sting! M1 Funtimes Members… Read More

Drew Kittleson A two–year longitudinal investigation of insula subregional cortical thickness and surface area in early psychosis. Kittleson AR, Woodward ND, McHugo M, Liu J, Vandekar SN, Armstrong K, Rogers B, Heckers S, Sheffield JM. Schizophr Res. 2025 Aug… Read More

By Neil Chada (G4) Sameer Chopra, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt MSTP Class of 2009 I had the pleasure to connect with our very own Vandy MSTP alum Sameer Chopra MD, PhD ’09 and am excited to share snippets with our community. Dr. Chopra is a medical oncologist who currently serves as… Read More

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