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Welcome to the MSTP @ AECOM! |
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The Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) is one of the nation's oldest. From the start, our goal has been to train academic medicine's future leaders. Continuously funded by the National
Institutes of Health since 1964, the Einstein MSTP has a long list of
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 current training program 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 two years of preclinical course work. Integration continues during the PhD thesis research years through weekly involvement in the MSTP Continuity Clinic and with monthly Clinical Pathological Conferences and MSTP Career Paths Seminars. This combination has resulted in
outstanding publications (Latest Publications), competitive residency placement (Match Results), and successful academic careers (Alumni) for its 311 graduates.
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Price Center for Genetic & Translational Medicine |
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The newly open Michael F. Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine in the Harold and Muriel Block Research Pavilion Center houses 40 labs. Each floor contains space for both computational and wet-lab bench researchers to increase opportunities for collaboration. The Price Center contains a 100 seat auditorium, a P3 biosafety facility for infectious disease research, chemical synthesis facilities for a chemical biology program and the Biophotonics Center for innovative reseach in imaging technologies.
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Mwakingwe Wins Young Investigator Award |
 Agnes Mwakingwe won the 2008 Young Investigator Award at the annual meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygine for her presentation entitled "Real-Time In Vivo Imaging of Liver Stages of Plasmodium yoelii: Gfp/Luciferase Reporter Parasites". Agnes also won a Travel Award to attend the meeting. Agnes works with Kami Kim in the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology. |
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What has really made my time at Einstein a great experience is how tailored the MSTP is to the specific needs of an MD-PhD student. Starting from our specific histology, anatomy and physiology courses through the continuity clinic and career development seminars the program is really about being a physician-scientist, not a physician and a scientist.