The first CAPS networking event was held Wednesday, June 11th in the Gordon Center Atrium. This event was an opportunity for physician-scientists across the division to meet and connect. You can view photos from this event on the CAPS homepage. Dean Mark Anderson gave opening remarks. Program Director Sonia Kupfer spoke about program goals and introduced this year’s CAPS Fellow and Scholars:
"In 2019, before Dean Anderson’s arrival, Scott Oakes, Ivan Moskowitz, and I began a grass-roots effort to provide common programming for physician-scientists in training across Pathology, Pediatrics, and Medicine. While there has been a long tradition of training physician-scientists at UChicago, this had previously been somewhat siloed and was more developed in some Clinical Departments compared to others. We felt that a unified approach would help all boats to rise for recruitment & training of physician-scientists and could encourage inter-Departmental collaborations and mentorship. With Dean Anderson’s arrival, the three of us along with Marcus Clark and Yun Fung crafted a proposal to formalize this grass-roots effort as a formal Divisional program dedicated to building the number of successful physician-scientist trainees across the BSD... thus was born the Community for Advancement of Physician-Scientists or CAPS in the fall of 2024.
CAPS will serve as an umbrella program that builds on the long-standing tradition of exceptional research by physician-scientists at the University of Chicago spanning from training through faculty levels and will foster opportunities for horizontal and vertical community-building and mentorship."
2025 CAPS Scholars:
Shrey Sindhwani, MD, PhD; Hematology Oncology Fellow, Medicine Department
William Zhang, MD, PhD; Experimental Pathology Fellow, Pathology Department
2025 CAPS Fellow:
Nicole Miranda, MS2
Please see below for more information on CAPS events.
Past:
- CAPS Social- Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Upcoming:
- Fall Retreat (Saturday, October 4, 2025; Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery. RSVP here.)
- CAPS Spotlight Series (2025 Kickoff, Date TBA)
- Mock Study Sections (Beginning December 2025, Dates TBA)