Honors and Awards
Honors and Awards – September 2024
Sep. 27, 2024—Danielle Walker, 2024 Vanderbilt MSTP summer student, received the Vanderbilt Lou De Felice Travel Award to attend the ABRCMS conference! Drew Kittleson (G3) received a Graduate School Travel Grant for an upcoming presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) in Montreal, Quebec! Kevin Zhang (G2) won Best Graduate Student...
Honors and Awards – August 2024
Aug. 29, 2024—Kimmy Bress (G3) received her NIH F30 fellowship! Avery Bogart (G4) received the 2024 Basic Sciences Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies! Drew Kittleson (G3) received a Professional Development and Training Grant from the Russell G. Hamilton Graduate Leadership Institute! He is using the grant for Connectivity Course; Structural and Functional Brain Connectivity via MRI and...
Honors and Awards – July 2024
Jul. 29, 2024—Congratulations to our new M1 students who received their white coats at the White Coat Ceremony and officially began their journey to become physicians! Congratulations to Xavier Bledsoe (G5) for being selected to give an oral presentation by the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics society in the fall! Congratulations to Kyle Enriquez (G3) for...
Honors and Awards – June 2024
Jun. 28, 2024—Drew Kittleson (G3) was awarded a 2024 Graduate Leadership Anchor Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work advocating for and supporting the LGBTQ+ community at Vanderbilt! These awards honor the hard work and leadership of Vanderbilt graduate students across all schools and recognize outstanding service, mentorship, departmental leadership, advocacy, and research excellence. Read more here!...
Honors and Awards – May 2024
May. 30, 2024—Congratulations to Dr. Matt O’Neill (‘24) who participated in a YIA manuscript competition and was one of three finalists for the Heart Rhythm Society Young Investigator Award with David Chiang (Brigham and Women’s/Harvard Medical School) and Valerie van Weperen (UCLA). He presented the manuscript ‘Granular Variant-specific Features Improve KCNH2-Long QT Syndrome Risk Stratification’. Congratulations to Kimmy Bress...
Congratulations to the 2024 Vanderbilt MSTP Graduating Class!
May. 30, 2024—Congratulations to our 2024 Vanderbilt MSTP Graduates! The table below lists their next steps. Many of our graduates were recognized with awards at class day! Drs. Leon Cai, Ayaka Sugiura, and Camille Wang received the Dean’s Award for Research. This award is presented to the graduating medical students who best exemplify the attributes that lead...
Honors and Awards – April 2024
Apr. 30, 2024— Natalie Bennett (G5), Riley Bergman (G4), and Sarah Reed (G3) were among the 100 doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada selected to receive a $25,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood this year. The P.E.O. Sisterhood is a philanthropic educational organization dedicated to supporting higher education for women. The P.E.O. Scholar Awards were established...
Honors and Awards – March 2024
Mar. 29, 2024—Congratulations Dr. Nick Petersen (M4) on successfully defending his dissertation! Congratulations to Peggy Randon (M1) & Kaitlin McKernan (G2) who received the 2024 Robert F. Miller Award for Community Service and Engagement! Congratulations to Sarah Reed (G3) on receiving her NIH NRSA F30!
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!