Geisel School of Medicine MD-PhD Program

Our student, Yasmin Kamal, PhD (M3) is featured in the @GeiselMed Magazine! “It will be interesting telling my grandchildren what it was like to receive my medical training during a pandemic.” @Dartmouth @QBSdartmouth dartmed.dartmouth.edu/2020/10/21/yas…

A new study co-led by Steven Leach, MD, Director of @Dartmouth’s and @DartmouthHitch’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (@CancerDartmouth), uncovers a direct link between mutations in p53 and KRAS, providing insight for future development of therapeutics. geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/rese…

"Initially, we thought we'd find that HIV affects the ear, but what seems to be affected is the brain's ability to process sound," says Jay Buckey, professor of medicine (@GeiselMed) and adjunct professor of engineering (@ThayerSchool) at @Dartmouth. ibtimes.sg/hiv-can-affect…

In an NHPR story about COVID-19 and safeguards such as wearing face masks & practicing social distancing, Dr. Gregory Tsongalis says that states that implemented "those types of precautions quickly showed much more containment of the spread of the virus." #stream/0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nhpr.org/post/masks-soc…

Provost Joseph Helble and guests Dean Madden (@DeanMaddenLab), Margie Ackerman & David Leib discussed yesterday phase one of how @Dartmouth intends to safely and incrementally ramp up access to campus laboratories. Read about & re-watch the broadcast here: news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/05/c…

Join us today at noon for the 1st in a special #COVID19 webinar series hosted by the @GeiselMed & co-sponsored by @DartmouthAlumni & @Dartmouth's grad schools! Learn how big data and technology could help address the health inequities exposed by COVID-19. dhmcalumdev.hitchcock.org/health-dispari…

Congratulations to Tamutenda Chidawanyika​, our PhD student, for successfully defending her thesis today!!! 🍾 🎓 📜

A coalition of scientists at @Dartmouth are working around the clock to improve testing and develop new therapies for COVID-19. news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/04/d…

"I’m about to graduate from medical school, and I’m ready to join the coronavirus fight" writes one of our recently matched students, Chris Rees. 👏 courant.com/opinion/op-ed/…

To my @Dartmouth friends: many people are unaware of all the amazing paid software we get from the college for FREE - which is useful especially now during this #WFH #CoronaVirus time. What follows is my guide about the free Dartmouth SW I know about but feel free to add more!

Congratulations to Dr. Kay Jankowski, an assistant professor of psychiatry at @Dartmouth’s @GeiselMed, for receiving the Article of the Year Award! geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/jank…

Congratulations to three of our students, Kevin Shee (@KShee11), Julia Litzky, and Chris Rees (@ChristiaanRees1) on their matches!!! geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/matc…

An academic-industry partnership spearheaded by engineers at @Dartmouth’s @ThayerSchool has received a $3 million grant from @theNCI to pursue development of a multi-modal breast imaging platform to reduce the number of unnecessary breast biopsies. nhbr.com/3-million-gran…

There is a strong link between the amount of fast food that pre-school age children consume and their likelihood of becoming overweight or obese, according to a new @Dartmouth-led study, published in the journal Pediatric Obesity. geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/dart…

Using specialty cameras and an oxygen probe drug, researchers at @Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center (@CancerDartmouth) can now image oxygen from within cancer tumors during radiation. This could be used to track tumor response to radiation therapy. buff.ly/38VQk1x

According to a new @Dartmouth study published in @JAMAInternalMed, pharmaceutical companies’ promotional access to outpatient practices that deliver primary care in the U.S. is substantial, possibly impacting prescribing quality and cost. buff.ly/2SfGiBJ

A @GeiselMed student Alyssa Flores '21 is the lead author of a new paper recently published in the journal @NatureNano. The approach described in the study targets macrophages to prevent atherosclerosis. buff.ly/2GHXgTz

ATTENTION, UNDERGRADUATES! MD-PhD Undergraduate Summer applications for the next summer are due on 1/31! MPUS is a fully funded fellowship program organized by our students aimed at exposing undergrads to the career path of physician-scientist. Apply now! geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/mpus/apply/

Ninth annual @GeiselMed Research Poster Presentation Night took place on January 8th, also featuring last year's Science Scholars, a program led and mentored by our MD-PhD students Yasmin Kamal (P4), @MarekSvob (P3), Steven Tau (P1) & Abby Dutton (M2)! buff.ly/2szV1OY

Ready for #singlecellgenomicsday by @SatijaLab here at @Dartmouth! Screening supported by @GeiselMDPhD & Center for Quantitative Biology. Come join us all day at @DartmouthHitch in Rubin 790!!!