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Honors and Awards – April 2022
Apr. 29, 2022—Nowrin Chowdhury (G3) was awarded VI4 Trainee of the Year! Dr. Ben Reisman (M4) was awarded the Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine by the Department of Medicine! Michael Rudloff (G3) and Nowrin Chowdhury (G3) both won poster awards for AAI Immunology 2022!
AAP/ASCI/APSA 2022 Joint Meeting
Apr. 29, 2022—by Camille Wang (G3) From April 8 – 10, MSTP students attended the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago, IL. The conference was attended by medical and graduate trainees, resident physicians and fellows, attendings, and program directors. It was a wonderful way to get to know other trainees and faculty from institutions across the country, especially...
MSTPublications: April 2022
Apr. 28, 2022—Temporal lobe epilepsy lateralisation and surgical outcome prediction using diffusion imaging. Johnson GW, Cai LY, Narasimhan S, González HFJ, Wills KE, Morgan VL, Englot DJ. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2022 Mar 28:jnnp-2021-328185. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2021-328185. Online ahead of print. Objective: We sought to augment the presurgical workup of medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy by creating a...
Life in the MSTP – March 2022
Apr. 4, 2022—Our MSTP classmates had a wonderful time at Cadaver Ball, the first since 2019!! Cadaver Ball is held the day after Match to celebrate our outgoing M4s. Brynna Paulukaitis (G5) and her husband Scott welcomed precious baby Marissa to the world early this month, congratulations! Christiaan Wijers (G4) became a U.S. citizen! Congratulations! ...
Honors and Awards – March 2022
Apr. 4, 2022—Congratulations to Nick Petersen (G3) for being awarded an F30 research grant! Congratulations to Aaron Lim (M4) on his abstract winning 1st place in the Scientific Trainee Prize at the Association of University Radiologists national meeting! Congratulations to Stephanie Cajigas (G2) on being awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented minority fellowship for the upcoming Gordon Research Conference on Neurobiology of Drug Addiction! Congratulations...
MSTPublications: March 2022
Apr. 4, 2022—Introduction to the BioChemical Library (BCL): An Application-Based Open-Source Toolkit for Integrated Cheminformatics and Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery. Brown BP, Vu O, Geanes AR, Kothiwale S, Butkiewicz M, Lowe EW Jr, Mueller R, Pape R, Mendenhall J, Meiler J. Front Pharmacol. 2022 Feb 21;13:833099. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.833099. eCollection 2022. The BioChemical Library (BCL) cheminformatics...
Women in Training Trivia Night
Apr. 4, 2022—by Camille Wang (G3) On the evening of Wednesday, March 16, the Women in Training (WIT) Committee held its first trivia night in Eskind Biomedical Library. Trivia questions were women in science themed (for instance, how many women have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine? Answer: 12), and five teams participated with one...
Physician-Scientist Speaker Series: Dr. Karl Deisseroth MD, PhD
Apr. 4, 2022—by Avery Bogart (G1) On March 17, 2022, the Vanderbilt MSTP had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Karl Deisseroth for the Spring Physician-Scientist Speaker Series (PSSS) as part of his visit for the Discovery Lecture. Dr. Deisseroth is the DH Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, as...
Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium Recap
Feb. 28, 2022—By Nowrin Chowdhury (G3) The Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) annual conference was hosted virtually by the Vanderbilt MSTP on January 29, 2022. SEMSS aims to bring together undergraduates, MD-PhD students, residents, and physician-scientists to provide information on the career path as well as foster mentorship, career building, and share scientific knowledge. While SEMSS is...
MSTPublications: February 2022
Feb. 25, 2022—Integrating gene expression and clinical data to identify drug repurposing candidates for hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Wu P, Feng Q, Kerchberger VE, Nelson SD, Chen Q, Li B, Edwards TL, Cox NJ, Phillips EJ, Stein CM, Roden DM, Denny JC, Wei WQ. Nat Commun. 2022 Jan 10;13(1):46. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27751-1. Discovering novel uses for existing drugs, through...
Honors and Awards – February 2022
Feb. 25, 2022—Congratulations to Nick Petersen (G3) for receiving second place in Oral Presentations at SEMSS and for receiving an APSA travel award! Zack Williams (G3) was interviewed by an autism news source about an initiative he led for the international society for autism research. Congratulations to Hernan Gonzalez (M4) for receiving second place in Poster Presentations at SEMSS! Congratulations to Maxwell Roeske (G4) for...
Life in the MSTP – February 2022
Feb. 25, 2022—First year MSTP and medical students went to the symphony for a performance of Brahms concerto for cello and violin, including M1s Adam Abdulrahman, Fei Yang, Sharon Fernandez, Camella Carlson, and Reilly Fankhauser. Joseph Ramsey (M2) has been baking king cakes in celebration of Mardi Gras, delivering cakes to friends near and far! If you’d like...
MSTPets x Snow
Jan. 30, 2022—Ericka Randazzo (M2) is now a proud cat mom to Ozzie! Natalie Bennett’s (G3) dog Kasey Nick Petersen’s (G3) dog Luna and cat Kaya Megan Tigue’s (G1) cat Jasmine! Sarah Reed’s (G1) Noodle