Annual Spring Symposium
The Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsors a one-day symposium in the spring featuring an outside keynote speaker, oral presentations of student research, student poster presentations and activities to foster student-faculty interactions. The symposium is organized by the student Seminars Committee.
The keynote speaker is an MD/PhD physician-scientist with an active research program. The speaker is selected by MSTP students with input from the Honors Lecture Committee of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to give a Beyer Lecture. This lecture is in honor of Karl Beyer, MD/PhD, a dual-degree graduate of UW-Madison in the late 1930s and pioneer in the development of agents to treat hypertension and edema.
Speakers over the past decade have included:
- Shawn Coughlin MD/PhD, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF (2001)
- Kit Lam, MD/PhD, Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, UC-Davis (2002)
- Christopher Walsh, MD/PhD, Department of Neurology, Harvard (2003)
- Evan Sadler, MD/PhD, Department of Medicine, Washington University (2004)
- Vanessa Gamble, MD/PhD, Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics (2005)
- Jeffrey Friedman, MD/PhD, Center for Human Genetics, Rockefeller (2006)
- Martin Yarmush, MD/PhD, Department of Surgery, Harvard (2007)
- Johan Stenflo, MD/PhD, Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Lund (2008)
- George Daley, MD/PhD, Biological Chemistry/Molecular Pharmacology and Pediatrics, Harvard (2009)
- Karl Deisseroth, MD/PhD, Bioengineering and Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford (2010)
- Lalita Ramakrishnan, MBBS, PhD, Microbiology, Medicine, and Immunology, University of Washington (2011)
- Erkki Ruoslahti, MD, PhD, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara (2012)