Meet Our Current Students
Every year, 6-10 highly talented individuals from diverse backgrounds and interests join the MCW MSTP family. We currently have students from 38 different undergraduate institutions across 18 states.
Our students and administrators are very supportive and helpful to one another, fostering outstanding mentorship and creating an inclusive environment to help you integrate your passion for research with medicine.
Learn more about our current students, including their research interests and publications.
The MSTP is an unparalleled opportunity to receive an education that poises trainees for productive careers as both clinicians and researchers. MCW has a wide (and expanding) array of friendly faculty willing to support students in all phases of their education. Furthermore, the MCW MSTP administrators are extraordinarily kind and willing to facilitate the best training experience in any way possible.
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M1 Students









M2 Students







G1 Students


G2 Students

Mohamed Khalil
G2 Student
Advised by Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD, and Scott Terhune, PhD, Microbiology & Immunology



G3 Students
G4 Students





G5 Students

M3 Students

Puja Agrawal, PhD
M3 Student
Advised by Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology) and Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy



Katelyn Heimbruch, PhD
M3 Student
Advised by Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology) and Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy


M4 Students

Alexander Helfand, PhD
M4 Student
Advised by Jeffrey Binder, MD, Neurology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, and Biophysics

Clinton Piper, PhD
M4 Student
Advised by William Drobyski, MD, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Microbiology & Immunology



Erica N. Woertz, PhD
M4 Student
Advised by Joseph Carroll, PhD, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Biophysics, and Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy; located at the Eye Institute