MSTP Blog
Lunches with Leaders
Nov. 1, 2022—MSTP Lunches with Leaders has started again! Lunches with Leaders is a great opportunity for a small group of students to meet with institutional leadership. Recent leaders have included Dr. Charlene Dewey (Assistant Dean for Educator Development, Director of the Educator Development Program, Director of the Center for Professional Health, and Chair of the Faculty...
Vanderbilt MSTP Walks for Zach
Nov. 1, 2022—On Saturday, October 1 the Vanderbilt MSTP participated in the JDRF One Walk in Nashville to honor our friend and colleague Zachary Jones who passed away last fall. Thank you to those who participated.
We’re all #MSTPstars!
Nov. 1, 2022—#MSTPstar features a selection of some of amazing things we do in our real lives: finding new/enjoying old study spots, making time to purchase food so our bodies have calories, remembering where we parked our car, etc. Submit your #MSTPstar here. “Kudos to Stephanie Cajigas (G3) for B&Eing through my bedroom window to feed my cat” -Allie Lake...
Life in the MSTP – October 2022
Nov. 1, 2022— Kimberly Bress’s (G1) poem, “Observer Box,” was published in Tabula Rasa! Congratulations to Alex Silver (G4) and Kat Bryan who got married on October 8th and celebrated with help from their MSTP friends! Clara Si (G2) got married to James Jordano (VMS IV) on October 14! Congratulations! Congratulations to Megan Tigue (G2) on her engagement to...
MSTPublications: October 2022
Oct. 31, 2022—Single-Cell Identification of Melanoma Biomarkers in Circulating Tumor Cells Fankhauser R, Chang M, Garrison Z, Berryman R, Lucero OM, Fuiten A, DePatie N, Seifert H, Kulkarni RP. Cancers. 2022; 14(19):4921. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14194921 The current standard for investigating tumors is surgical biopsy, which is costly, invasive, and difficult to perform serially. As an adjunct, circulating tumor cells...
Meet Avery-Cohen PSTP Associate College Advisor Jean Wassenaar, M.D., Ph.D.
Oct. 31, 2022—by Mark Petrovic (M2) Dr. Jean Wassenaar, M.D. Ph.D. is a PGY-6 Cardiology Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Physician Scientist Training Program. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, Dr. Wassenaar received her undergraduate degree in bioengineering from Johns Hopkins University and worked for Epic Systems during her gap year before matriculating at the University of California San Diego...
Life in the MSTP – September 2022
Sep. 29, 2022—Candace Grisham (G2) and Varun Menon (VMS ’20) are engaged! Congratulations! M4s Kelsey McNew, Benjamin Fowler, Maggie Axelrod, and Jay Kang gathered for a group pic on ERAS headshot day! One Avery-Cohen family including Emma Hope (M1), Kevin Zhang (M2), Kimmy Bress (G1), Jeewoo Kim (G1), Avery Bogart (G2), and Monika Grabowska (G2) got together for a...
Honors and Awards – September 2022
Sep. 29, 2022—The G4 class celebrated their halfway milestone that was postponed due to COVID complete with receiving their M.P. honorary degrees! Congratulations G4s! Kimberly Bress (G1), Neil Chada (G1), Kaitlin McKernan (G1) were inducted to the Gold Humanism Honor Society by their peers! The mission of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) is to recognize individuals who...
Recap: Leadership Workshop I 2022
Sep. 29, 2022—by Camille Wang (G4) Another successful iteration of the biennial Leadership Workshop I, designed for early G phase students, was held at Alumni Hall on the Vanderbilt campus, the first since the pandemic to be held entirely in person. The workshop was co-chaired by Juan Colazo (G4) and Camille Wang (G4), as well as members...
Dr. Matthew Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.: Stahlman-Thomas Advising College Faculty Leader
Sep. 29, 2022—by Jen Peek (G1) Dr. Matthew Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine within the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and is the newest Faculty Advisor of Stahlman Thomas. He trained in the Vanderbilt MSTP, where he completed his PhD in Pharmacology with Lee Limbird on the structure-function relationships of alpha-2 adrenergic receptors. Dr....
Dr. Mariana Byndloss, D.V.M., Ph.D.: Sutherland-Watkins Faculty Advisor
Sep. 28, 2022—Mariana Byndloss received her D.V.M. and a Ph.D. from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis, Mariana started her lab in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2018. Her research aims at understanding how inflammation-mediated changes in...
MSTPublications: September 2022
Sep. 28, 2022—Impaired Dynamic Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca Buffering in Autosomal Dominant CPVT2. Wleklinski MJ, Kryshtal DO, Kim K, Parikh SS, Blackwell DJ, Marty I, Iyer VR, Knollmann BC. Circ Res. 2022 Sep 14:101161CIRCRESAHA121320661. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.320661. Online ahead of print. Background: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia syndrome triggered by catecholamines released during...
Dr. J-N Gallant, M.D., Ph.D. (’19): Sutherland-Watkins Associate College Advisor
Aug. 30, 2022—by Kaitlin McKernan (G1) Dr. Jean-Nicolas Gallant, M.D., Ph.D. is a 2019 graduate of the Vanderbilt University MSTP and is currently a fourth year in Vanderbilt’s Otolaryngology residency program and a Sutherland-Watkins Associate College Advisor. He is from Montréal, QC, Canada, and he attended Amherst College, where he majored in Anthropology and Chemistry. He then...