MSTP
Q&A with MSTP Lizzie Flook (PhD ’21, MD ’22)
May. 9, 2022—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, earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Vanderbilt University last year, studying stress-related brain regions during abstinence in individuals...
The Best of Both Worlds: How MSTPs Balance Life in Two Advising College Communities
Sep. 28, 2020—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 will be terribly lonely. Maybe...
2020 MSTP grad Kevin Graepel shares his four-year experience researching coronaviruses
Jun. 8, 2020—by Emma Mattson Kevin Graepel describes his early experience of the COVID-19 pandemic as a “rapidly escalating sense of dread.” Graepel, who graduated from VUSM in early May with an M.D./Ph.D. could be considered something of a coronavirus expert. He spent his Ph.D. years researching in Dr. Mark Denison’s lab, studying how a specific coronavirus...
MSTP Students share how they made their final MD PhD decisions
May. 18, 2020—by Emma Mattson You could say Acadia National Park convinced Matt Loberg to become a doctor. Loberg, now an M2 in Vanderbilt’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), spent a summer during college doing research on bone marrow stem cells in Bar Harbor, a small town off the coast of Maine and part of the Acadia...