University of Minnesota MSTP (MD/PhD)

06/30/2025

Welcome to our 2025 incoming class!

06/27/2025

Check out the first author paper by Edith Hernandez in Behavioral Neuroscience titled "Therapeutic effects of metformin on co***ne conditioned place preference and locomotion".

Lack of Food and Drug Administration-approved treatments for co***ne use disorder contributes to high rates of treatment attrition, relapse, and overdose. Metformin is a Type 2 diabetes drug being investigated for multiple new therapeutic indications. This study set out to determine whether metformi...

06/20/2025

Check out the co-author paper by Senali Dansou in International Journal of Molecular Science titled "Deciphering colorectal cancer-hepatocyte interactions: a multiomics platform for interrogation of metabolic crosstalk in the liver-tumor microenvironment".

Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer, enabling tumor cells to adapt to and exploit their microenvironment for sustained growth. The liver is a common site of metastasis, but the interactions between tumor cells and hepatocytes remain poorly understood. In the context of liver metastasis,....

06/17/2025

Our MD-PhD Information and Q&A Session is next Tuesday, June 24 at 7:00 PM CDT on Zoom. Meet with MSTP Director Dr. Yoji Shimizu and current students. Register at http://z.umn.edu/mstpinfo

06/09/2025

Check out the first author paper by Allison Dona in BMC Womens Health titled "Logistic and time burdens reported by gynecologic and breast cancer survivors".

Minimizing the time needed for cancer care-related tasks matters to patients, especially to those with lower incomes, receiving treatment, and working. In-depth research among demographically diverse populations is needed to evaluate specific time use patterns within cancer care and their associatio...

06/05/2025

Our MD-PhD Information and Q&A Session is Tuesday, June 24 at 7:00 PM CDT on Zoom. Meet with MSTP Director Dr. Yoji Shimizu and current students. Register at http://z.umn.edu/mstpinfo

05/30/2025

Congratulations to José Valentin López, who successfully defended his PhD. The title of José's thesis is "Genetic aberrations and cholesterol metabolism in castration-resistant prostate cancer".

05/19/2025

Congratulations to Dominique Earland, who successfully defended her PhD. The title of Dominique's thesis is "Uncomplicated malaria infection and severe malaria disease case management in Sussundenga District, Mozambique".

05/12/2025

Check out the co-first author paper by Jenna Dick in JCI Insight titled "Phenotype and function of IL-10-producing NK cells in individuals with malaria experience".

P.falciparum infection can trigger high levels of inflammation that lead to fever and sometimes severe disease. People living in malaria-endemic areas gradually develop resistance to symptomatic malaria and control both parasite numbers and the inflammatory response. We previously found that adaptiv...

05/07/2025

Congratulations to Arthur de la Cruz-Lynch, who successfully defended his PhD. The title of Arthur's thesis is "Catheter-based renal denervation: evaluation as a treatment for hypertension".