St. Jude / Vanderbilt Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Training Grant

The St. Jude / Vanderbilt Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Training Program at Vanderbilt University and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a training program that supports graduate students studying at the interface of chemical biology and medical translational research.

Highlights of the training program include a chemical biology curriculum carried out at Vanderbilt, elective courses for specialized training, an interactive seminar series in chemical biology, an annual research retreat and an in-depth laboratory research experience including lab rotations. Trainees work with dual mentors, one at Vanderbilt, and one at St. Jude, in collaborative projects involving both laboratories. Students are well grounded in a core discipline and sufficiently well trained in complementary fields to allow them to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary environment. Trainees obtain Ph.D. degrees working with research advisors in the Departments of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Pharmacology

Twenty-eight faculty members from five departments in the College of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt and 35 faculty members at St. Jude serve as mentors to students participating in the training program. Significant biological training is provided to students receiving in-depth training in synthetic/mechanistic chemistry and significant training in synthetic/mechanistic chemistry is provided to students receiving in-depth training in the biological sciences.