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The incoming BRTP students are: back row, from left — Austin Jelcick, Jessica Hutter, Tara Nordgren and Eric Miller; front row from left — Tess Eidem, Debra Irsick and Haley Capek. |
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The incoming M.D./Ph.D. students are from left — Joel Michalski, John Morrison, David Stone, Frank Lin and Gautam Malhotra. Not pictured are Michael Baine, Brady Beecham and Ari Nowacek. |
The BRTP, now entering its eighth year, is a common entry program for Ph.D. study in the College of Medicine and the Cancer Research Graduate Program. The purpose of the program is to recruit highly talented graduate students to enhance UNMC’s research mission and to provide students with the opportunity to select from a wide variety of laboratories before deciding upon their Ph.D. study laboratory and department.
Formalized in 1994, the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program is designed to prepare a select group of outstanding students for careers in academic medicine and research. Directors of the program are Shelley Smith, Ph.D., and Debra Romberger, M.D.
“Critical to UNMC’s research mission is having high-caliber students from around the nation,” said Daniel Monaghan, Ph.D., BRTP director. “The incoming classes for both the BRTP and M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Programs continue the tradition of having solid academic credentials.”
The BRTP program now receives a large number of applications each year and has been fortunate in receiving applications from more than 100 U.S. schools in 35 different states.
With the addition of eight new students this year, there are now 21 M.D./Ph.D. students on the UNMC campus.
Students entering the BRTP program this fall are:
- Haley Capek — Nebraska Wesleyan University
- Tess Eidem — University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Jessica Hutter — Doane College
- Debra Irsik — University of Pennsylvania
- Austin Jelcick — California State University, Stanislaus
- Eric Miller — Wayne State College
- Tara Nordgren — George Mason University, Virginia
Students entering the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program this fall are:
- Michael Baine — Loyola Marymount University (not pictured)
- Brady Beecham — Entering second year medical school at UNMC (not pictured)
- Frank Lin — University of Pennsylvania
- Gautam Malhotra — University of California, Berkeley
- Joel Michalski — Entering second year medical school at UNMC
- John Morrison — University of Iowa
- Ari Nowacek – Has completed his second year of medical school at UNMC and is entering graduate school (not pictured)
- David Stone — Missouri State University