BEST grant Archive — Page 1 of 1

Portrait of a smiling woman with shoulder-length dark hair wearing a red-and-black patterned top.

February 26, 2015

Former postdoc managing NIH career training initiative

Five months ago D’Anne Duncan, Ph.D., was a third-year postdoctoral fellow in ophthalmology and visual neuroscience at Vanderbilt University. Today she’s program manager of a national consortium that is helping scientists-in-training prepare for today’s broad sweep of career options.

By Bill Snyder

Four BEST grant application participants stand outdoors near a building entrance, arranged left to right as Kimberly Petrie, Kate Stuart, Roger Chalkley, and Kathleen Gould.

September 26, 2013

Grant broadens graduate, postdoc training programs

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop “bold and innovative approaches to broaden graduate and postdoctoral training.”

By Bill Snyder