MSTP Events
August- June 2026
August 1, 2025
Senior Mentoring Match Event
Time: 3:00 PM
August 8, 2025
Clinical Case Review – Molecular Medicine Residents
Time: 11:00 AM
August 10, 2025
White Coat Ceremony
Time: 2:00–4:00 PM
August 14, 2025
Physician Scientist Mentoring Community – Non-Traditional Specialties Panel
Time: 6:00–8:00 PM
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Raga Ramachandran, MD, PhD – Professor, Pathology; MSTP Associate Director
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
August 18, 2025
Into the Lab: Choosing a Graduate Program
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
August 21, 2025
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Martin Kampmann, PhD – Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics; MSTP Council
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
August 28, 2025
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Kristen Berendzen, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
September 24, 2025
MSTP Fall Welcome Dinner
Time: 6:00–8:00 PM
October 3, 2025
Clinical Case Review
Faculty: Jonathan Klein, MD, PhD (Cardiology), Selen Uman, MD, PhD (Infectious Disease)
Time: 11:00 AM
October 7, 2025
PhD3 Reorientation
Time: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
October 9, 2025
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Joseph Bondy-Denomy, MD – Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
CUPS Fall Dinner
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
October 15, 2025
MSTP Info Session: PROPEL
Time: 4:00–5:30 PM
October 16, 2025
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Andrei Goga, MD, PhD – Professor, Cell and Tissue Biology
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
October 20, 2025
MSTP Big Sib/Little Sib Dinner
Time: 5:00 PM
October 23, 2025
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Christina Theodoris, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; MSTP Alum
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
October 31, 2025
Clinical Case Review
Faculty: Sarah Weiss, MD, PhD, Jacob Winter, MD, PhD (Molecular Medicine)
Time: 11:00 AM
October 30 – November 1, 2025
SACNAS National Conference
Find us in the exhibit hall!
November 6, 2025
MSTP Holiday Mentoring Event
Time: 5:30–8:30 PM
November 13, 2025
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Kliment Verba, PhD – Assistant Professor, Cellular Molecular Pharmacology
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
November 19–22, 2025
ABRCMS National Conference
Find us in the exhibit hall!
November 21, 2025
Clinical Case Review
Faculty: Victoria Sun, MD, PhD, Benjamin Moon, MD, PhD
Time: 11:00 AM
December 4, 2025
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Jonathan Chou, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Medicine (Heme/Onc); MSTP Alum
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
December 6-7, 2025
Med 170.36 – Into the Clinic
January 8, 2026
New Year Coffee Hour
Time: 8:30–10:00 AM
January 22, 2026
Physician Scientist Mentoring Community Dinner
Time: 6:00–8:00 PM
January 29, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Robert Edwards, MD – Professor of Neurology and Physiology
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
February 5, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Serine Avagyan, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
February 10, 2026
PhD Candidacy Ceremony
Time: 2:00–5:00 PM
February 25, 2026
Trefethen Visiting Professorship Lecture and Dinner: Helena Hansen, MD, PhD
Time: Seminar at 4:00 PM; Dinner following
February 26, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Chris Hsiung, PhD, MD – Assistant Professor, Surgery
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
March 5, 2026
Into the Lab: What to Look for in a Lab and PI? (MSTP1s)
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
March 20, 2026
Match Day
Time: 9:00–10:00 AM
March 24, 2026
PSCDP/MSTP Finding a Lab – Panel and Networking
Time: 3:00–5:00 PM
April 2, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Rushika Perera, PhD – Professor, Anatomy
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
April 10–12, 2026
Conference of the Society for Humanities, Social Sciences, and Medicine
Time: TBD
April 15–17, 2026
MSTP Revisit
Time: TBD
April 16, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Doris Wang, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery; MSTP Alumna
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
April 23, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Babak Javid, PhD – Associate Professor, Medicine
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
April 29–30, 2026
MSTP Retreat
May 14, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Phillip Dumesic, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Diabetes Center
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
May 15, 2026
Graduate Division Commencement
Time: TBD
May 20, 2026
School of Medicine Commencement
Time: 4:00 PM
May 21, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Michelle Arkin, PhD – Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
May 28, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Averil Ma, MD – Professor of Medicine
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM
June 4, 2026
Med 170.09 – Seminar
Faculty: Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM