Congratulations to Kimberly (Kimmy) Bress (G3) for receiving a Professional Development and Training Grant!

Oral Abstract Deadline has been extended to August 16th! Visit southeasternmdphd.org for more information. Travel awards and poster abstracts remain due on August 16th.

Sarah Reed (G4) served as the Student Advisory Committee Chair from 2023-2024 year and we are so grateful for her contributions to the program! Read about her reflection on the past year here: medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/2024/07/2…

Some G2s got together on a Friday for happy hour last month at Double Dogs after lab!

The MSTP Summer Scholars and some current MSTP students had a social event at Pins Mechanical!

Congratulations to our new M1 students who received their white coats at the White Coat Ceremony last month and officially began their journey to become physicians!

Last month we had 2 more awesome sessions of our MSTP Health and Research Equity Summer Course. The session speakers included Digna Velez Edwards, MS, PhD, PhD, MS on culturally aware mentorship & Tiffany Israel, MSSW on Community Engaged Participatory Research!

Reminder that deadlines for abstracts and undergraduate travel awards for this year’s Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) hosted at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN from September 21-22 are due this Friday, August 16th! Visit southeasternmdphd.org for more info.

Already been a month since our M1s started getting to know each other at College Reveal and MD Orientation!

Congratulations to Mark Petrovic (G2) for being elected MSTP Student Advisory Council (SAC) Chair-Elect for this upcoming year!

Congratulations to Yash Pershad (G2) for being elected APSA Chair-Elect for this upcoming year!

Congratulations to Reilly Fankhauser (G2) for being named this year's MSTP GSC representative!

Last July, MSTP students Sarah Reed (G4), Duby Okonkwo (G2), Riley Bergman (G5), Matthew Loberg (G5), Arlene Garcia (G3), Candace Grisham (G4), and Nada Elsayed (G3), attended the 39th Annual National MD/PhD Student Conference in Breckenridge Colorado. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/2024/07/2…

Congratulations to Kyle T Enriquez (G3) for receiving his F30!

Congratulations to Xavier Bledsoe (G5) for being selected to give an oral presentation by the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics society in the fall!

Congratulations to Candace Grisham (G4) and Captain Menon (VMS ‘20) on their wedding this summer!

We are excited to invite host this year’s Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS)! This SEMSS will be hosted by Vanderbilt on campus from September 21-22, 2024, and it will be co-sponsored by Emory and UAB.

Our 8 students in the MSTP Summer Undergraduate Research Program closed out their time with us by presenting their summer research at the Vanderbilt Summer Science Academy Poster Session and completed oral presentations for our MSTP Summer Research Symposium!

Congratulations to Landon Clark (G1) and his fiancée Tori on their recent engagement!