Dartmouth Study Reveals New Insights into How the Infant Microbiome Impacts Early Childhood Behavior in Boys and Girls
A new Dartmouth-led study published in Pediatric Research has found a direct and sex-specific association between the composition of infant microbiome and early childhood behavioral health. Read more…
Graduate Student in Cancer Research is First at Dartmouth to Receive Prestigious NCI Award
Jichang Han, BS, a member of the Dartmouth College Molecular and Cell Biology PhD Program, is the first at Dartmouth to receive a Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Read more…
Dartmouth Researchers Examine the Mozart K448 Effect in Epilepsy
Researchers from Geisel, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Dartmouth College’s Bregman Music and Affective Sound Lab, seek mechanisms for the anti-epileptic properties of Mozart’s K448 as a therapeutic potential for epilepsy. Read more…
Norris Cotton Cancer Center Researchers Find Immune Cells That Guard Frequent Site of Cancer Spread
Researchers in the laboratory of Mary Jo Turk, PhD, Co-Director of the Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center, have discovered a novel population of tumor-fighting T cells that provide protection against melanoma. Read more…
Geisel Receives $12.5 Million NIH COBRE Renewal Grant Supporting Institute for Biomolecular Targeting at Dartmouth
Researchers at Geisel have received a $12.5 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue the groundbreaking work of the Institute for Biomolecular Targeting at Dartmouth. Read more…
Dartmouth Accelerator Project Advances Research
Now entering its second year, the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer has attracted more than $3.5 million in philanthropy and has helped 17 research teams advance their work. Read more…
Dartmouth Researchers Develop Web Tool for Enhancing Gene Data Analysis
Researchers at Dartmouth have developed a simple, user-friendly web application that rapidly mines gene expression data to identify genes and pathways of interest to answer biological questions. Read more…
Geisel’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health Receives $7.1M Grant to Expand Work in Digital Therapeutics
Geisel’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health has received a five-year renewal grant of more than $7.1 million from The National Institute on Drug Abuse, an institute under the National Institutes of Health dedicated to supporting scientific research on drug use and its consequences. Read more…
Geisel and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Receive Grant to Monitor COVID-19 Variants in the Region
A team of researchers and clinicians at Geisel and Dartmouth-Hitchcock are working on a National Institutes of Health grant to track the development and spread of COVID-19 variants that are detected in the Upper Valley. Read more…
Geisel School of Medicine Announces 2021 Munck-Pfefferkorn Grant Awards
Since 2016, the Munck-Pfefferkorn Grant Awards have supported faculty investigators launching new and innovative yearlong projects. This year the grants have provided more than $420,000 in seed funding to Geisel researchers. Read more…
Geisel Researchers Receive $6.2 Million Grant to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Long-Term Care Workers
A team of researchers at Geisel has received a $6.2 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to test approaches that may increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine among long-term care facility workers. Read more…
Dartmouth-led Study Explores Race Inequality in Opioid Prescribing Among U.S. Health Systems
A new Dartmouth-led study published in the New England Journal of Medicine sheds light on the role U.S. health systems play concerning racial inequality in prescription pain medicine receipt. Read more…
New AI Model Accurately Classifies Colorectal Polyps Using Slides from 24 Institutions
A team of researchers at Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that could benefit colorectal cancer screening programs by improving efficiency, reproducibility, and accuracy. Read more…
Researchers Discover How a Plant Virus Activates the Immune System Against Cancer
Immunology researchers at Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center have identified pathways through which a plant virus is recognized by the immune system, opening the door for a new biological drug to treat tumors. Read more…
