Honors and Awards
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!
Honors and Awards – January 2024
Jan. 30, 2024—Mark Petrovic (G1) received an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship!
Honors and Awards – December 2023
Dec. 18, 2023— Congratulations to Mark Rusznak (G3) and Hailey Kresge (G2) for receiving NIH NRSA F30 Fellowships! Congratulations to Camella Carlson (G1) and Sharon Fernandez (G1) for their recent admission into the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) which recognizes individuals who are exemplars of humanistic patient care and who can serve as role models, mentors, and leaders in...
Honors and Awards – November 2023
Nov. 29, 2023—Neil Chada (G2) placed first in graduate student oral presentations and Nada Elsayed (G2) received first place in graduate student poster presentations at SEMSS this year! Dr. Matthew O’Neill (M4) was the winner of the Genomic and Precision Medicine Early Career Investigator Award Competition by the American Heart Association. Matthew received the award at the organization’s 2023 Scientific Sessions following the presentation...
Honors and Awards – October 2023
Oct. 31, 2023—Sarah Reed (G3) and Candace Grisham (G3) received the 2023 Levi Watkins Jr. MD Award for their outstanding contributions in improving diversity, equity, and inclusion!
Honors and Awards – September 2023
Sep. 28, 2023—Kimmy Bress (G2) received a Neurodiversity Inspired Science & Engineering Graduate Trainee Fellowship from the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation and received a Russell G. Hamilton Graduate Leadership Institute Professional Development and Training Grant! Kimmy’s project is “Sensorimotor Control of Facial Expression in Autism” using MRI to study why facial expression is atypical in autism. Bryn Sierra...
Honors and Awards – August 2023
Aug. 30, 2023—Avery Bogart (G3) received her NIH NRSA F30! Drew Kittleson (G2) was awarded a three-year Clinical and Translational Science Award from VICTR to fund his project on “Functional activation and connectivity of the human posterior insula in schizophrenia”!