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Mark Sundrud, PhD

Title(s)
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Principal Investigator, Dartmouth Health

Department(s)
Medicine
Microbiology and Immunology

Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Microbiology & Immunology)
B.A., Concordia College (Biology, Psychology
Chemistry)

Programs
Immunology Program
Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Programs
Dartmouth Cancer Center

Curriculum Vitae
Sundrud_M_CV_2022-12-21.pdf

Websites
https://sundrudlab.com

Contact Information

Borwell Research Building, HB7999
1 Medical Center Drive
Lebanon NH 03756

Office: Borwell 630W
Phone: 6036507812
Email: Mark.Sundrud@Dartmouth.edu


Professional Interests

Intestinal immune regulation; gastrointestinal physiology; development and function of effector and regulatory T cells; bile acids; nuclear receptors; inflammatory bowel disease

Rotations and Thesis Projects

Nuclear receptor networks in intestinal T cell development and function; T cell redox metabolism; gut microbe-bile acid-T cell interplay'; region-specific immune regulatory networks in the intestine; immune and bile acid dysregulation in IBD; bile acid-directed IBD therapies.

Grant Information

NIH R01 5R01AI143821, “Determinants of bile acid-dependent T cell regulation in the intestine" (PI); 1 R01 AI164772-01, “Nuclear receptor control of T cell function in discrete intestinal microenvironments” (PI); 1 U01 AI163063-01, “Nuclear Receptor Networks in Mucosal Immune Regulation” (PI); 1 R21 AI154039-01A1, “Transcript-selective translational control of Th17 cell development and function” (PI)

Mentoring Information

Dr. Sundrud is a passionate advocate for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in the life and biomedical sciences. He has worked in both formal and informal settings throughout his career to increase access to undergraduate research opportunities, particularly for low-income, rural, first-generation college and URM students. Dr. Sundrud's experience in both the Academic and Industry research sectors affords his students and trainees with unique perspectives on the skills and insights needed to pursue careers in either arena.

Biography

A native of Minnesota, Dr. Sundrud received his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Immunology from Vanderbilt University, and performed post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School as an Irvington Institute fellow of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI). After his postdoc, Dr. Sundrud spent 3 years leading Discovery Biology research at Tempero Pharmaceuticals, a GSK-funded start-up biotech company located in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Sundrud was recruited to join the Faculty of The Scripps Research Institute’s Jupiter, Florida (Scripps Florida) campus as an Assistant Professor in 2013. He was promoted to Full Professor (with Tenure) in January 2022, and joined Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in September 2022. Dr. Sundrud’s work focuses broadly on identifying, and ultimately manipulating, novel pathways underlying T cell-driven inflammatory diseases. His lab has been consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation (CCF) to interrogate novel mechanisms by which xenobiotic-sensing nuclear receptors and transporters mediate crosstalk between T cells and bile acids in the small intestine.


Selected Publications

 

Local Interactions Between Innate Immune Signaling, Microbiota, and Bile Acids Drive the Development of Duodenal Adenomas.
Burgueño JF, Hazime H, Fritsch J, Jacobsen GE, Dione HD, Cickovski T, Gonzalez EE, Santander AM, Fernandez I, Brito N, Gao Z, Ban Y, Wang L, Wilson L, Barnes S, Pignac-Kobinger J, Sundrud MS, Abreu MT
Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025 Dec 2;:101694. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2025.101694. Epub 2025 Dec 2.
PMID: 41344439

Anti-PD-L2 immunotherapy is efficacious against melanoma in aged hosts through IL-17 and IFNγ signalling.
Ontiveros CO, Garcia MG, Murray CE, Deng Y, Bai H, Tanner C, Leung B, Li X, Padron A, Reyes RM, Kancharla A, Soh KT, Krishnan S, Chand D, Balasubramanian A, Hegner C, Jakubzick CV, Gupta HB, Turk MJ, Sundrud M, Conejo-Garcia JR, Curiel TJ
Nat Commun. 2025 Nov 19;16(1):10176. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65025-2. Epub 2025 Nov 19.
PMID: 41261166

Profiling bile acids in the stools of humans and animal models of cystic fibrosis.
Carmichael MM, Valls RA, Soucy S, Sanville J, Madan J, Surve SV, Sundrud MS, O'Toole GA
Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Oct 7;13(10):e0145125. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01451-25. Epub 2025 Sep 16.
PMID: 40956094

Profiling Bile Acids in the Stools of Humans and Animal Models of Cystic Fibrosis.
Carmichael MM, Valls RA, Soucy S, Sanville J, Madan J, Surve SV, Sundrud MS, O'Toole GA
bioRxiv. 2025 May 9; pii: 2025.05.08.651222. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.08.651222. Epub 2025 May 9.
PMID: 40654714

Bile acid synthesis impedes tumor-specific T cell responses during liver cancer.
Varanasi SK, Chen D, Liu Y, Johnson MA, Miller CM, Ganguly S, Lande K, LaPorta MA, Hoffmann FA, Mann TH, Teneche MG, Casillas E, Mangalhara KC, Mathew V, Sun M, Jensen IJ, Farsakoglu Y, Chen T, Parisi B, Deota S, Havas A, Lee J, Chung HK, Schietinger A, Panda S, Williams AE, Farber DL, Dhar D, Adams PD, Feng GS, Shadel GS, Sundrud MS, Kaech SM
Science. 2025 Jan 10;387(6730):192-201. doi: 10.1126/science.adl4100. Epub 2025 Jan 9.
PMID: 39787217

Quantifying Forms and Functions of Enterohepatic Bile Acid Pools in Mice.
Sudo K, Delmas-Eliason A, Soucy S, Barrack KE, Liu J, Balasubramanian A, Shu CJ, James MJ, Hegner CL, Dionne HD, Rodriguez-Palacios A, Krause HM, O'Toole GA, Karpen SJ, Dawson PA, Schultz D, Sundrud MS
Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2024;18(6):101392. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2024.101392. Epub 2024 Aug 22.
PMID: 39179177

Quantifying forms and functions of intestinal bile acid pools in mice.
Sudo K, Delmas-Eliason A, Soucy S, Barrack KE, Liu J, Balasubramanian A, Shu CJ, James M, Hegner CL, Dionne HD, Rodriguez-Palacios A, Krause H, O'Toole GA, Karpen SJ, Dawson PA, Schultz D, Sundrud MS
bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 18; pii: 2024.02.16.580658. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.16.580658. Epub 2024 Feb 18.
PMID: 38405928

Clonal Parabacteroides from Gut Microfistulous Tracts as Transmissible Cytotoxic Succinate-Commensal Model of Crohn's Disease Complications.
Singh V, West G, Fiocchi C, Good CE, Katz J, Jacobs MR, Dichosa AEK, Flask C, Wesolowski M, McColl C, Grubb B, Ahmed S, Bank NC, Thamma K, Bederman I, Erokwu B, Yang X, Sundrud MS, Menghini P, Basson AR, Ezeji J, Viswanath SE, Veloo A, Sykes DB, Cominelli F, Rodriguez-Palacios A
bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 10; pii: 2024.01.09.574896. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.09.574896. Epub 2024 Jan 10.
PMID: 38260564

ATP-dependent transporters: emerging players at the crossroads of immunity and metabolism.
Balasubramanian A, Sundrud MS
Front Immunol. 2023;14:1286696. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1286696. Epub 2023 Oct 31.
PMID: 38022644

Development of a putative Zn(2+)-chelating but highly selective MMP-13 inhibitor.
Fuerst R, Choi JY, Knapinska AM, Cameron MD, Ruiz C, Delmas A, Sundrud MS, Fields GB, Roush WR
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2022 Nov 15;76:129014. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2022.129014. Epub 2022 Oct 4.
PMID: 36202189

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