University of Minnesota MSTP (MD/PhD)

06/09/2026

https://med.umn.edu/news/dr-carla-rothlin-joins-university-minnesota-lead-center-immunology-new-era

The Center for Immunology's new director studies how the body knows when to fight, when to stop, and how to heal itself afterward.

06/08/2026

Congratulations to Jacob Noeker, who successfully defended his PhD. The title of Jake's thesis is "Serotonergic signaling in astrocyte-neuron interaction within subcortical limbic regions".

06/05/2026

https://med.umn.edu/news/university-minnesota-researchers-find-metrics-matter-understanding-brain-networks-and-disease

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (06/04/2026) — Neurological and psychiatric disorders may start in one part of the brain, but their effects can spread to other parts of the brain network and cause damaging consequences.

05/27/2026

Our MD-PhD Information and Q&A Session is Tuesday, June 23 at 7:00 PM CDT on Zoom. Meet with the MSTP Director and current students. Register at http://z.umn.edu/mstpinfo

05/18/2026

Congratulations to Kate Fallon, who successfully defended her PhD. The title of Kate's thesis is "Redox perturbations in muscular dystrophy: mechanistic insights into eccentric contraction–induced force loss".

05/07/2026

Congratulations to Allison Dona, who successfully defended her PhD. The title of Allison's thesis is "Stigmatizing and affirming language in cancer care electronic health records".

04/27/2026

Check out the co-author paper by Jovany Betancourt in Journal of Experimental Medicine titled "Alternatively activated monocyte-derived myeloid cells promote extracellular pathogen persistence in pulmonary fungal granulomas".

04/20/2026

Check out the first author paper by Kate Dembny in Journal of Neural Engineering titled "Metric validation for detection of delayed and directed coupling".

The brain functions as a complex network of billions of interconnected neurons, coordinating processes from basic reflexes to high-level cognition. Dysfunction in these networks contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders, including epilepsy, depression, and Parkinson's disease. Understandi...

04/14/2026

Check out the co-author paper by Hannah Bergom in Oncotarget titled "CREB5 regulates stem cell-like transcriptional programs to enhance tumor progression in prostate cancer".

Copyright: © 2026 Makovec et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Prostate g …

04/13/2026

Congratulations to Anisha Adke, who successfully defended her PhD. The title of Anisha's thesis is "VGF in the nucleus accumbens: roles in synaptic and opioid-evoked plasticity"