Welcome to the web site for the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Northwestern University, one of 43 combined MD-PhD degree programs in the biological and physical sciences that is funded by the National Institutes of Health MSTP grant to prepare MD-PhD physician-scientists for dual careers in biomedical research and in patient care.

Applicants and prospective applicants can check online on our receipt of their 2009 Supplemental Application and their Letters of Recommendation beginning on September 15, 2009, applicants can check on our receipt of their 2009 MSTP Supplemental Application by clicking here.

Read about our students' accomplishments ... Residency Match results for the seven 2008 MSTP graduates, all MSTP students' publications, fellowships, scholarships, awards, and MSTP students' participation in Chicago area public health community service and in global health initiatives.

Read about our alumni in the news ... about Todd Kuiken, M.D., Ph.D., faculty member in Northwestern's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, who developed the world's first thought-powered, bionic arm and was chosen as one of Chicago Magazine's Chicagoans of the Year in 2007 (read Esquire article - or watch either the TV news announcement or the video on Science Investigators-> select-> chapter 5) and read about Joseph Walder, M.D. Ph.D., who founded and is President of Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) which prepares custom polynucleotides.

Read about faculty research interests ...on regenerative medicine, on women's infertility research, particularly the Oncofertility Consortium, a fertility preservation program for women and girls diagnosed with cancer; on the new Center for Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnostics or the new Center for Molecular Imaging, both in Silverman Hall, and both named after Northwestern's medicinal chemist, Dr. Richard Silverman, who created the drug Lyrica; about stem cell research from an October 2007 podcast featuring Dr. Jack Kessler, about nanotechology (listen to the March 21, 2007 radio interview with Drs. Chad Mirkin and Mark Ratner - Northwestern faculty winners of the 2001 and 2002 Feynmann Prize in Nanotechnology.

For more information, please contact us.

MSTP Students and Events

Other News, Events, and Announcements

July 9, 2008 - 5:00-6:30 PM, Next MSTP Grand Rounds Live Videoconference and live webcast from Hughes Auditorium in the Lurie Building to Tech MG51, by Greg Woodhead (Med3) and Preeti Sukerkar (Grad2) with Dr. Puneet Opal as the Faculty Preceptor.

July 26-27, 2008 - MSTP Faculty-Student Retreat, Allen Center, Evanston campus (Saturday) and Hughes/Lurie, Chicago campus (Sunday). Alumni keynote speakers will be Dr. Michael Quon, Chief of the Diabetes Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Dr. Joseph Walder, founder and president of the biotechnology company, Intgrated DNA Technologies.

July 18-20, 2008 - National MD-PhD Student Conference, Keystone, Colorado. Six Northwestern MSTP students will present their research: Blayne Amir Sayed, Ali Christy, Sarah Umetsu, Tracy Gertler, Danielle Smith, and Cory Simpson.

Other NU current events... Research Seminars and Events

All Grand Rounds & Conferences at the Feinberg School of Medicine