MD-PhD students Christian Coherd (G1, Whitley Lab) and Vincent Azzolino (M4) presented their research today at the Department of Dermatology's 2026 Research Symposium. Such impressive work you two!🎉 #UMassMSTP #MDPHD #physicianscientist

Congrats to our M1s on finishing their first block of medical school!! We are so proud of you!!! 🥼🩺🩻#UMassMSTP #MSTP #physicianscientist #P1Done

Congratulations G2s on passing your Qualifying Exam! You are all becoming stellar physician-scientists and your MSTP family is so incredibly proud.

Go go go!!! #QualifyingExam #MSTP #UMassMSTP #physicianscientists

Thank you to our wonderful Curriculum Committee Chairs, Haruna Choijilsuren, Alyssa Connell, and Amanda Page for thoughtfully putting this session together and to our speakers for sharing their knowledge!

We can't wait for the next one! 🥼🧫🧪📝#UMassMSTP #PSF #MSTP #MDPhD

This work is relevant in the identification of alternative ORFs expressed in cancer that may represent neoantigen targets for immunotherapy.

Way to go Andrew!!! UMass Chan MSTP family is proud!! #UMassMSTP #PhysicianScientists 🧪🧫💙

Lauren is part of Dr. Beth McCormick's research group, and one of the 19 MD/PhD students at UMass MSTP with active F30 grants. Congrats Lauren!!! Keep making us proud🥼🧪🧫 #NIHF30 #UMassMSTP #PhysicianScientists

It's F30 city over here at the UMass Chan MSTP! Congrats Noah Sciambra on receiving the NIH F30 fellowship for his project: "Innate Immune Sensing of Bacterial Phenazine Toxins"

Noah is a G4 in our program director, Read Pukkila-Worley's, lab. Fantastic job Noah!🧪🥼 #UmassMSTP

Rebecca is co-mentored by Dr. Sontheimer and Dr. Xue. Congrats Rebecca!!!⭐️ #UMassMSTP #PhysicianScientists #NIHF30

Congrats Melanie, what a double-doc in the making! #UMassMSTP #PhysicianScientists

Anna Aristarkhova has been awarded an F30 for her project: Understanding the mechanisms behind complement mediated synapse elimination in neuroinflammatory disease.

Congratulations Anna!! You make us proud! #UMassMSTP #physicianscientists

Tyler is a GS3 in the Bucci Lab; we are so proud of you!!! #UMassMSTP #physicianscientist

You thought we were done? No way! Congrats Boris Dimitrov, GS3 in the Mercurio lab on your F30!!! Boris is studying "Mechanisms of Ferroptosis Resistance in Metastasis".

One of our MSTP ⭐️s. We are beyond proud! #UMassMSTP #physicianscientists

Some of our G1s having lunch together on this beautiful Friday! They start their Prep for QE class next Monday!! It's wonderful to see how these students stick together even during their transition to PhD!

#UMassMSTP #PhysicianScientists #GradSchoolYears

F30 Alert!!! Congratulations to MS3/GS1 Jewel Voyer on her notice of award on her F30: Functional Characterization of Noncanonical Nucleotides as Second Messengers in Immune Signaling

Go Jewel!! 🧫🧪 #physicianscientist #UMassMSTP

Our program is so lucky to have you! Watch out world, there are 10 new physician-scientists in training. 🫡

#umassmstp #physicianscientists #mdphd #mstp #whyumass

Join us in welcoming the newest member of our rising second year class, Isabella Schichter. We are so proud and happy to have you join us! Can't wait to see the physician-scientist you will become. #PhysicianScientists #MSTP #UMassMSTP

So much happening in our MSTP Program! What an incredible year we had. Onto the next!
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