Welcome to the web site for the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Northwestern University, a combined MD-PhD degree program in the life and physical sciences that prepares graduates for dual careers as physician-scientists in biomedical research and in patient care. We hope that applicants and prospective applicants, current students, graduates, faculty and staff will find the information presented on this site useful. Please use the links on the left and below to learn more about our award-winning students, our faculty, our program of study, MSTP courses, MSTP activities such as the Women's Forum and the Annual MSTP Student-Faculty-Alumni Retreat in Summer 2008 and other events. If you would like additional information, please contact us.

Read more about our students' accomplishments ... early 2008 Match results in Neurosurgery for two of the seven 2008 MSTP graduates, all MSTP students' publications, fellowships, scholarships, awards, our students' partiicaption in Chicago area public health community service and in global health initiatives for Northwestern students (read about MSTP students' participation), about the MSTP at Northwestern in Ward Rounds, about the Research Centers at Northwestern in the current issue of Centerpiece, or about the new Center for Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnostics or the new Center for Molecular Imaging, both in Silverman Hall, named after Northwestern's medicinal chemist, Dr. Richard Silverman, who created Lyrica, the recently marketed drug (read the NU press release and the Bloomberg News article).

Read about our alumni in the news ... about Todd Kuiken, M.D., Ph.D., who, as a faculty member in Northwestern's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 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 the Esquire magazine March 2008 article - opens new window or watch either the September 2006 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 (listen to the Janaury 21, 2008 "Made in Chicago" feature on IDT aired on WBBM Radio 780)

And read more about research at Northwestern ... in regenerative medicine, in women's health research, particularly the Oncofertility Consortium which is a fertility preservation program for women and girls diagnosed with cancer with NIH funding to several institutions and led by NU faculty member Dr. Teresa Woodruff, and read the press release on Dr. J. Fraser Stoddart, pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and organic chemistry, who joined the Northwestern Chemistry Department in Fall 2007), and in drug discovery and development.

Listen to learn more ... about stem cell research from an Octrober 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

Applicants can check on our receipt of their MSTP Supplemental Application and their Letters of Recommendation by clicking here.

MSTP Students and Events

Other News, Events, and Announcements

May 14-16, 2008 - MSTP Senior Week

May 14, 2008 - 12:00 PM, Med4 Lunch (location TBA) and Class Meeting

May 14, 2008- 5:00 PM, Passing of the Wisdom, Hughes, all MSTP students

May 15, 2008 - 5:00-7:00 PM, MSTP Graduate Reception, Buckingham Ballroom, Allerton Hotel 3rd floor, all MSTP students and MSTP graduates' families

May 16, 2008 - 3:30-5:30 PM, FSM Graduation, Navy Pier

May 21 , 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 (note new room in Evanston), by Ben Chen (Med3) and Danielle Smith (Grad2) with Dr. Bill Schnaper as the Faculty Preceptor.

May 8, 2008 - 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM, 14th Annual Alzheimer Research Day at Northwestern. The NU Annual Alzheimer Day was established to showcase Alzheimer's research conducted at Northwestern and bring this information to the community. The day begins with a lecture by an outstanding researcher, followed by 45-50 poster presentations by Northwestern clinicians and scientists who are conducting basic science, clinical and social science research in addition to developing new programs and services for patients and families.

May 14, 2008 - 8:00 AM - 4:45 PM, "RNAi and Cancer" Basic Sciences Symposium, McCormick Tribune Center, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus. The cost for early registration by May 1 is $50 ($25 for students/trainees) and afterward is $75.

May 18, 2008 - One day course on Proteomics and Informatics, at the University of Illinois-Chicago, by the Chicago Biomedical Consortium. Early registration ($50) is strongly encouraged, as registration is limited to 20 participants. The application deadline is May 5, 2008.

May 22, 2008 - Signal Transduction Symposium at Northwestern University, 8:30-4:00 PM, Thorne Hall. Students' early registration is free until May 14 (and $25 as of May 15).

July 18-20, 2008 - National MD-PhD Student Conference, Keystone, CO.

Other NU current events... Research Seminars and Events

All Grand Rounds & Conferences at the Feinberg School of Medicine