Overview

The Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) is one of the nation's oldest. From the start, our goal has been to train outstanding students to become future leaders of academic medicine and medical research. Continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1964, the Einstein MSTP has 516 illustrious Alumni with careers spanning the spectrum from basic science research to clinical medicine and many variations in between.

Today, the Einstein MSTP is still unique. Larger than most other MSTPs, it fosters a strong academic and social community within the college. While large enough to be an independent academic unit, the program is still small enough to provide students with the individual attention their unique careers require.

The MSTP recognizes that the successful physician-scientist training is not simply medical school plus graduate training. The program integrates MSTP-specific courses with medical and graduate courses, during the first 18 months of preclinical course work. Integration continues in the PhD thesis years through weekly involvement in the MSTP Continuity Clinic. Students have outstanding publications and residency placements.

The Einstein MSTP encourages applications from all individuals. In his 1951 letter agreeing to allow the newly formed College of Medicine to be named in his honor, Professor Albert Einstein stated, "...it will welcome students of all creeds and races." The MSTP is committed to fulfilling Professor Einstein's legacy. We are dedicated to providing outstanding care to our Bronx community and training our students to be outstanding physician-scientists who will become future leaders in biomedical research and academic medicine.

M.D./Ph.D. Program (MSTP) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Four M.D./Ph.D. students share what motivates them to pursue the long and rigorous course toward becoming physician-scientists. Established in 1964 with one of the first National Institutes of Health grants for physician-scientist training, Einstein's program has received continuous NIH funding ever since and now has 500 alumni.

Highlights & Recent News

More News

Einstein Magazine

Celebrating 60 Years of Training Physician Scientists

Sep 24, 2024
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Inaugural Impact Day Showcases Medical Student Research and Commitment to Service

May 01, 2023
Feature

Graduate Student Researchers Win 2023 Marmur Award

Apr 20, 2023

Awards & Accomplishments

Predoctoral Fellowships

Jackson Rogow NIH NRSA F30 Fellowship, " Regulation of Presynaptic Gene Transcripts During Synaptogenesis" (Sponsor, Peri Kurshan and Robert Singer, Neuroscience)
Daniella Miller NIH NRSA F30 Fellowship, "Investigation of Chromatin Modifiers to Elucidate the Phenotypic Variability of Congenital Heart Disease in Patients with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome"(Sponsor, Bernice Morrow, Genetics)
Elliot Kim F30 NRSA Fellowship, "Effects of locomotion on visual inter-areal processing" (Sponsor, Adam Kohn, Neuroscience)
Blake Ebert NIH NRSA F30 Fellowship, "Tet-mediated DNA hydroxylation vs formylation and carboxylation in NSC biology" (Sponsor, Meelad Dwalaty, Genetics)
Brett Bell NIH NRSA F30 Fellowship, "Anti-Complement Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer" (Sponsor, Chandan Guha, Pathology)
Erik Guillen NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship, "Impact of T cell receptor signaling on memory CD8+ T cell stemness" (Sponsor, Gregoire Lauvau, Microbiology & Immunology)
Helen Jung NIH NRSA F30 Fellowship, "Strategies for next-generation flavivirus vaccine development" (Sponsor, Jon Lai, Biochemistry)
Riana Lo Bu NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship, "Dissecting GWAS Identified Risk Variants in Parkinson's Disease â€“ Functional Role of GPNMB in the Pathogenesis of PD" (Sponsor, Frank Soldner, Neuroscience)

Publications

Ghersin H*, Gulfo MC*, Frohlich BA, Wilson SM, Berlot AA, Zhang JS, Kankaria R, Radparvar A, Lin J, Blackmore MA, Raff AC. Socioeconomic factors and test preparation strategies are related to success on the USMLE Step 2 clinical knowledge (CK) exam: a single-institution study. BMC Med Educ. 2024 Dec 3; 24(1):1412. (*contributed equally)
Engel MG, Narayan S, Cui MH, Branch CA, Zhang X, Gandy SE, Ehrlich M, Huffman DM. Intranasal long R3 insulin-like growth factor-1 treatment promotes amyloid plaque remodeling in cerebral cortex but fails to preserve cognitive function in male 5XFAD mice. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024 Nov 29:13872877241299056. Epub ahead of print.
Schurer A, Glushakow-Smith SG, Gritsman K. Targeting chromatin modifying complexes in acute myeloid leukemia. Stem Cells Transl Med. 2024 Nov 28:szae089. Epub ahead of print.
Tse AL, Acreman CM, Ricardo-Lax I, Berrigan J, Lasso G, Balogun T, Kearns FL, Casalino L, McClain GL, Chandran AM, Lemeunier C, Amaro RE, Rice CM, Jangra RK, McLellan JS, Chandran K, Miller EH. Distinct pathways for evolution of enhanced receptor binding and cell entry in SARS-like bat coronaviruses. PLoS Pathog. 2024 Nov 15; 20(11):e1012704.
Bae AJ, Fischer BJ, Peña JL. Auditory competition and stimulus selection across spatial locations from midbrain to forebrain in barn owls. J Neurosci. 2024 Oct 29:e1298242024. Epub ahead of print.
Sweeney JM, Willis IM, Akabas MH. Yeast-based assay to identify inhibitors of the malaria parasite sodium phosphate uptake transporter as potential novel antimalarial drugs. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2024 Oct 13;26:100567. Epub ahead of print.
Hiner CR, Mueller AL, Su H, Goldstein H. Interventions during Early Infection: Opening a Window for an HIV Cure? Viruses. 2024 Oct 9; 16(10):1588.

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M.D./Ph.D. Program (MSTP) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Highlights & Recent News

Einstein Magazine

Celebrating 60 Years of Training Physician Scientists

Feature

Inaugural Impact Day Showcases Medical Student Research and Commitment to Service

Feature

Graduate Student Researchers Win 2023 Marmur Award

Awards & Accomplishments

Predoctoral Fellowships

Publications

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