Principal Investigator
Steven D. Leach, MD
Interim Dean, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology
Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer
Steven D. Leach is interim Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine, Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, the Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer, and previously the Director of Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Prior to this, he directed Memorial Sloan Kettering's Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, and also served as Professor of Surgery, Oncology and Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Leach received his bachelor’s degree with high honors in Biology from Princeton University. He then completed medical school at Emory University, where he was a Robert Woodruff Fellow, followed by additional clinical and scientific training at Yale and MD Anderson.