MSTP News

Congratulations to Jeewoo Kim (G4) and Daniel Ju on getting married last month! Many MSTPals were in attendance! The M1s celebrated Julia An’s birthday at Maggiano’s and Saksham Saksena’s birthday at Hyderabad House, yum! A group of G1s went for a hike at Standing Stone… Read More

By Leigh Ann Gardner (MSTP Sr. Grants Manager)  November 3: British surgeon Wilfred Trotter, born on November 3, 1872, in Gloucestershire, England, is remembered for his psychological theories on herd mentality as well as his surgical skills. He received degrees from London’s University College Hospital and initially entered medicine… Read More

A sensorimotor basis for facial expressivity differences in autism. Bress KS, Quinde-Zilbut J, Zoltowski AR, Convery CA, Lewis B, Rogers BP, Vandekar S, Travers B, Cascio CJ. Imaging Neurosci (Camb). 2025 Nov 10;3:IMAG.a.981. doi: 10.1162/IMAG.a.981. eCollection 2025. PMID: 41230421 Free PMC article. Abstract: In… Read More

Best of AJHG and HGG Advances 2024-2025: American Society of Human Genetics Xavier Bledsoe’s (M4) PhD thesis project “A transcriptomic atlas of the human brain reveals genetically determined aspects of neuropsychiatric health” has been selected by the American Society of Human Genetics in the special volume, which showcases the… Read More

By Anvith Reddy (G2) Dr. Nathaniel (“Nate”) Berg is a second-year Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a member of the Harrison Society. He is driven by a deep curiosity about the mechanisms of critical illness and aims to bridge bench… Read More

by Yash Pershad (G3) and Thomas Clarity (G2) Dr. Dan Roden, a Vanderbilt icon whose career spans more than four decades, shared invaluable insights with the MSTP community on November 11th during the Fall Physician-Scientist Speaker Series (PSSS). Originally from Montreal, he received his MD from McGill University… Read More

By Leigh Ann Gardner (MSTP Sr. Grants Manager) October 8: Born on October 8, 1959, in Lima, Peru, Carlos I. Noriega is the first Peruvian-born astronaut to fly into outer space. He and his family immigrated to the United States when Noriega was five years old, and he graduated… Read More

by Gabby Longway (G1) Last month, 14 Vanderbilt MSTP students traveled to the 15th annual Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) MSTP on September 27th-28th. SEMSS is a multi-institutional regional meeting of the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) with the goal… Read More

By Cass Atzrodt (G1) Dr. Adrian Cadar earned his PhD (‘17) and MD (‘21) at Vanderbilt University and is currently a PGY-5 fellow in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Cadar’s fascination with the heart began during childhood fishing trips with his father. While cleaning their catch, he was captivated… Read More

Congratulations to Drew Kittleson (G4) for receiving a Travel Award from the VU Graduate Leadership Institute for his oral presentation at the annual meeting of USPATH in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM!   The Englot, MASI, and NOBL MSTP lab members presented their work at the Vanderbilt University Institute… Read More