This presentation was given during the orientation of the applicants of the MD-PhD in Molecular Medicine Program of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. I shared in this presentation a glimpse of my life as an MD-PhD student.

1. MD-PhD
Students’
Anatomy
Lads Tantengco
MD-PhD Class 2022

2. #1 HANDS: Connect with
Colleagues/Fellow Researchers

3. MD-PhD GY1
(circa 2014)
Clinical Clerkship
(circa 2019)
MD-PhD Batch 5 (Divergent)

4. • Tetsu Wakimoto MD, PhD
• Osaka General Medical Center
• Hiroyuki Kitajima MD, PhD
• Kazutoshi Ito MD
• Suganya Thanasegaran PhD
• Osaka Women’s and Children’s
Hospital

5. • Yasuhiro Kawai MD, PhD
• Kanazawa Medical University
• Nirianne Palacpac PhD
• Osaka University
• Kiyoshi Yasukawa PhD
• Kyoto University
• Shinsuke Fujiwara PhD
• Kwansei Gakuin University

6. #2 EARS: Listen to Your Mentors

7. Nina G. Gloriani MD, PhD
Leptospirosis Control Laboratory,
College of Public Health, University
of the Philippines Manila

8. Itaru Yanagihara MD, PhD
Michinobu Yoshimura MD, PhD
Erlidia Llamas-Clark MD, MPH, PhD
Department of Developmental
Medicine, Research Institute, Osaka
Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, UP Philippine General
Hospital

9. Paul Mark Medina PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, College of Medicine, University of
the Philippines Manila
Ramkumar Menon PhD
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and
Perinatal Research, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston, Texas, USA

10. #3 EYES: Look for Research Grants

11. Faculty Research Grant 2015
Ethnomycological survey and functional bioactivity
screening of macrofungi utilized by Ayta communities in
Dinalupihan, Bataan
Faculty Research Grant 2017
Ethnobotanical survey and antimicrobial screening of
medicinal plants used by Eskaya healers in Bohol,
Philippines
Faculty Research Grant 2018
Antinociceptive property of crude venom extracts from
Philippine endemic ants on Caenorhabditis elegans and
Drosophila melanogaster

12. #4 FEET: Go to Trainings and
Workshops

13. Sakura Exchange Program
Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital

15. #5 MOUTH: Inspire and Tell Others
About Your Research

16. First Prize. Annual Student
Research Poster Contest.
Philippine Academy of Family
Physicians 57th Anniversary
and Annual Convention
First Prize. Poster and Oral
Research Contest. 28th Philippine
Society of Experimental and
Clinical Pharmacology Annual
Convention
First Place. Applied Science and
Biotechnology Category Oral
Presentation. 21st Biological
Sciences Graduate Congress.
Malaysia
Best Research Oral Presenter. 5th
National Conference, Restoration
Ecology Society of the Philippines
Saving the Cordilleras Ecosystem
Network, Inc.
Five Best Research Submissions
and Oral Presenters. Research
Competition. 2nd Philippine Herbal
Medicine Summit.
First Place. Applied Science and
Biotechnology Category Oral
Presentation. 23rd Biological
Sciences Graduate Congress.
Thailand

17. Speaker. #HealthXPH 2nd
Healthcare & Social Media
Summit. Davao, Philippines.
Panelist at APMC SN
Regional Convention at Cebu
Doctors’ University
Panelist at the Drafting of
Social Media Policy for the
Philippine Academy of
Ophthalmology
Healthcare in Social Media

18. “Mind the Gap: Bridging Basic
Science Research and Clinical
Practice”. Biology Society,
College of Science, Bulacan
State University. 2019.
A Symposium on Herbal
Medicine and Natural
Products Research. Thomas
Aquinas Research Center
Auditorium, University of
Santo Tomas.
Biocon 2018: Insights on
the Latest Trends on
Applied Biological
Sciences. Ozanam AVR,
Adamson University
Invitations from Different Universities

19. #6 Pay it Forward

20. Co-adviser to BS
Biology Thesis
Students

21. Co-adviser to UPM BS Biology Thesis
Students

22. Thank you very much.
God bless you!