Lab Members

Principal Investigator


Steven D. Leach, MD

Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology
Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer
Director of Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center

Steven D. Leach is Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, the Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer, and the new 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.

Lab Members


Britton Goodale

Research Scientist

Joined the Leach Lab in 2020
B.Sc. Biology and Environmental Studies, Tufts University
Ph.D. Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University
Postdoctorate - Immunotoxicology and Bioinformatics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
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Alexandra Massa

MCB Graduate Student

Joined the Leach Lab in 2019
B.Sc. Neuroscience and B.A. Chemistry, Stonehill College
PhD Innovation Fellow at Dartmouth
Venture Fellow at Borealis Ventures
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Somer Matar

MCB Graduate Student

Joined the Leach Lab in 2020
B.Sc. Chemistry, Keene State College
ASCP Board Certified Technologist in Molecular Biology
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Sabrina Oliveira

Research Assistant

Joined the Leach Lab in 2020
B.Sc. Biotechnology, University of New Hampshire
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Himanshu Chintalapudi

Research Scientist

Joined the Leach Lab in 2019
PharmD, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
MSc Bioinformatics, Northeastern University


Yang Zheng

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Joined the Leach Lab in 2019
B.Sc. Department of Biology, Shaanxi Normal University
M.Sc. Medical Faculty, University of Toyama
Ph.D. Graduate School of Innovative Life Sciences, University of Toyama