Postdoctoral Community and Leadership

The Medical School Postdoctoral Council (MSPC) was formed in 2023 to provide both support for Medical School postdoctoral scholars and to advise the Medical School leadership to the needs, resources and services required to maximize postdoctoral research education and training.

The committee meets with leadership monthly to relay concerns and provide invaluable feedback to direct policy, initiatives and program activities. The goal is to bolster shared governance in shaping postdoctoral training in the Medical School and maximize success outcomes for scholarly research productivity and career advancement. 

To reach out to the MSPC directly, please use the following email address: [email protected] 

The University of Minnesota Medical School is dedicated to providing excellence across our mission - high-quality education and training for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars of all backgrounds; innovative and cutting-edge research and exceptional clinical outcomes that promote health equity. Through a variety of services and programs, we aim to engage everyone in our collective work toward inclusive excellence, promote equity in access to learning, scientific inquiry, care delivery, and celebrate our diversity through cultural experiences and opportunities on and off campus.

The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, biomedical Sciences graduate programs and our Centers, Institutes and Programs (CIPs) are committed to increasing the impact, value and quality of faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and staff members by fostering a diverse, collaborative environment that promotes respect and civility, provides equal access to opportunities, and free from harassment, bullying, intimidation, and threatening behavior that interferes/impedes the ability to maximize success outcomes.

The contributions of scientists whose backgrounds encompass diversity including culture, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, and economic background are vital to our creative and productive research environment. Incorporating diversity in our community, curriculum, and research are essential for improving the health and knowledge of all.

The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies strives to increase the quality and diversity of trainees and provide a learning environment that supports inclusivity, equality and excellence.  As such, we employ innovative and best practice approaches in recruitment and retention efforts to maximally contribute to diversifying the workforce in biomedical research enterprise.

The GPS Office engages in best practices to maximally support our graduate student and postdoctoral scholar training environments by embracing the NIH expanded definition of Diversity in the Biomedical Sciences, by including individuals that are: (1) of ethnicity/race traditional underrepresented in the biomedical sciences, (2) first-generation college students, Pell grant recipients and/or socioeconomic disadvantaged, (3) disabled and (4) women.