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Honors and Awards – February 2024
Feb. 28, 2024—Dr. Ben Brown (’23) accepted a position to stay at Vanderbilt as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and the Center for Applied AI in Protein Dynamics, starting April 1, 2024!
Meet Dr. Ethan Lee, MSTP Associate Director for Graduate Education
Feb. 28, 2024—by Sarah Reed (G3) Dr. Ethan Lee, MD, PhD recently joined the MSTP Leadership Team as an Associate Director for Graduate Education. In this role, he will advise students on choosing a lab and support students throughout their graduate school years. Dr. Lee is a Professor in the departments of Cell and Developmental Biology, Pharmacology,...
ADI Highlights
Jan. 31, 2024—Vanderbilt will celebrate Black History Month during February with events aimed to acknowledge and appreciate the accomplishments of Black people on campus, across the country and around the globe. Please see this list compiled by the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center (BCC) on campus. The event line-up is updating daily so check the BCC’s page throughout the...
MSTPets
Jan. 30, 2024—Nada Elsayed (G2) knitted Sarah Reed (G3) a hat featuring her pup Noodle! Millie (Fur-baby to John Shelley G4) was unsure of all the snow this month
Life in the MSTP – January 2024
Jan. 30, 2024—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 who got married over the holidays! Congratulations...
Honors and Awards – January 2024
Jan. 30, 2024—Mark Petrovic (G1) received an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship!
MSTP Seminar Wellness Panel
Jan. 30, 2024—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 actionable advice on how to...
MSTPublications: January 2024
Jan. 30, 2024—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 tied to biological function and can enable processes such as signal transduction, enzyme catalysis, and molecular recognition. The...
Life in the MSTP – December 2023
Dec. 18, 2023— 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 Manager), and the rest of the...
ADI Highlights
Dec. 18, 2023—Candace Grisham (G3) and Dr. Megan Williams (MSTP Assistant Director) presented a poster on the ADI Council’s Longitudinal Curriculum in Health and Research Equity for the MSTP including information on the a new summer course called Foundations in Health and Research Equity for MSTP students at the Vanderbilt Health Professions Education Research Day.