MSTP Blog
G1 Students Share Lab Selections
Feb. 24, 2021—The Vanderbilt MSTP would like to congratulate the G1 class on completing their first two years of medical school and on joining the following laboratories and graduate programs: Here’s what they had to say about choosing their lab: Riley Bergman: I knew I wanted to join a cancer biology lab because the more I learn...
MSTPublications: February 2021
Feb. 24, 2021—General Purpose Structure-Based Drug Discovery Neural Network Score Functions with Human-Interpretable Pharmacophore Maps. Brown BP, Mendenhall J, Geanes AR, Meiler J. J Chem Inf Model. 2021 Jan 26. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01001. Online ahead of print. The BioChemical Library (BCL) is an academic open-source cheminformatics toolkit comprising ligand-based virtual high-throughput screening (vHTS) tools such as quantitative structure-activity/property...
Meet Avery-Cohen Advising College Faculty Leader Patrick Hu, MD, PhD
Feb. 24, 2021—PHYSICIAN-SCIENTIST, PIANIST, AND FATHER by Eric KF Donahue (G3) Introduction Dr. Patrick J Hu is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Cell & Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Hu and his wife, a rheumatologist, live in Nashville, TN, with their three high-school-aged daughters. In addition to caring for patients in hematology/oncology...
COVID-19 Vaccine
Jan. 28, 2021—If you have questions or concerns about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has many helpful videos, FAQs, and other information for patients. Below: Vanderbilt MSTP students, mentors, and alumni get the COVID-19 vaccine! Kelsey McNew, MSTP G4 who is doing her graduate work in an immunology lab, put together this helpful and fun...
MSTPets & Plants
Jan. 28, 2021—We would like to introduce Lucky (right) with her best friend (Leia) to the MSTPet community! Photo credit goes to Lucky’s human Thomas Li (M2). Millie (Human: John Shelley G1) and Ruben (Human: Allie Lake M2) had a super cute playdate! Drew Kittleson (M1) has been ~interleaving~ taking care of some new plants with studying.
MSTPastries: Holiday Edition
Jan. 28, 2021—A visual representation of MSTP students’ creativity extending beyond the lab and into the kitchen. Riley Bergman (G1) crafted some gingerbread truffles amid festive decor (A) and a picturesque crème brûlée (C). Emily Chu (G1) created snowflake embossed gingerbread cookies (B), upon close inspection, not all are identical! John Shelley (G1) + nephews demonstrated true holiday...
Life in the MSTP – January 2021
Jan. 28, 2021—On December 13th, 2020 Hernán González (G5) and Booma Narasimhan welcomed baby Leonardo (Leo) González-Narasimhan. Congratulations! Chris Wijers (G3) and Alissa Cutrone (G1) welcomed their son Mathijs Alexander Cutrone Wijers into the world on December 28, 2020. They are enjoying the start to the new year with lots of love and joy from the little one!...
Honors and Awards – January 2021
Jan. 28, 2021—Congratulations Danny Sack (G3) for receiving a Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) grant!
MSTPublications: January 2021
Jan. 28, 2021—Generalizing deep whole-brain segmentation for post-contrast MRI with transfer learning. Bermudez C, Remedios SW, Ramadass K, McHugo M, Heckers S, Huo Y, Landman BA. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2020 Nov;7(6):064004. doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.7.6.064004. Epub 2020 Dec 23. PMID: 33381612 Purpose: Generalizability is an important problem in deep neural networks, especially with variability of data acquisition in...
Alumni Profile: Katy Beckermann, M.D., Ph.D. (’11)
Jan. 28, 2021—By Natalie Bennett (G2) Dr. Katy Beckermann, M.D., Ph.D. is a 2011 graduate of the Vanderbilt MSTP and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with her to learn about her path to her current position, exciting clinical trial work, and advice for current trainees....
Leadership Workshop I Planned for April 2021
Dec. 22, 2020—Matt Madden (G4) Leadership Workshop I is a biennial day-long seminar for G1 and G2 students to develop skills often neglected in traditional graduate school curricula. Topics for the upcoming iteration of the workshop are organized by social context into self, paired, and group leadership, and include self-motivation and aligning values with your own and...
Life in the MSTP – End of the Year Social!
Dec. 21, 2020—The Vanderbilt MSTP held an End of the Year Social including a Gingerbread cookie decorating contest and a round of MSTP trivia. Above are all of the creative and talented Gingerbread cookie submissions! There was a tie in the Gingerbread cookie decorating contest and winners were G1s Emily Chu (penguin) and Emilie Fisher (T/B cell)....
Life in the MSTP – December 2020
Dec. 21, 2020—Josh Thompson (MSTP ’20) and Avery Bogart (M2) were on hepatobiliary service and went on an organ procurement together! Maggie (G2) and Matthew McBride welcomed Maizy McBride to the world December 10, 2020 at 7lbs 2oz and 19 in. Congratulations Maggie and Matt (and Goose) on your new addition! Sometimes the end of the year gets a little...
MSTPastimes: COVID Meat Curing
Dec. 21, 2020—Samantha Beik (G3) Making raw meat edible and reducing its ability to make us sick comprises two goals. The first is to remove toxic bacteria; the second is to remove as much water as you can. Actually, the second is pretty much an extension of the first, because you’re reducing water activity below the minimum...