Dartmouth researchers have discovered that immune cells called macrophages play opposing roles in cancer, with some fighting tumors, while others help them grow. A study published in Nature Immunology points to a more precise approach to cancer treatment by selectively blocking the cells that suppress the body’s natural defenses, using a drug already approved by the FDA.
An active researcher and beloved professor at Geisel School of Medicine for more that 50 years, Gustav (Gus) Lienhard, PhD, died March 31. He joined the Department of Biochemistry in 1972 and throughout his life studied the fundamental question of how our cells take up glucose in response to insulin.
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health both rose in the recently released 2025 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) rankings, which assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding across 145 medical schools and their departments, as well as independent hospitals across the United States.
Internationally recognized pathologist and physician-scientist Jennifer Hunt, MD, MEd, has been named the next dean of the Geisel School of Medicine, Provost Santiago Schnell and President Sian Leah Beilock announced today. She begins the role on Aug. 1.
Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) has appointed Roy Herbst as the center’s sixth director. Herbst will lead integrated efforts to help strengthen cancer research, education, and collaboration across Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health. Interim DCC Director Konstantin Dragnev was also recognized for his dedicated and thoughtful leadership during the transition.
The Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the 2026 Match Day, a pivotal event when graduating medical students learn their residency placements.
For her work investigating meiotic cell cycle regulation and chromosome segregation in budding yeast and mouse oogenesis, Soni Lacefield, PhD, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel of Medicine, has received the Genetics Society of America’s Ira Herskowitz Award.
“One of the most important updates we’ve made to the existing Patients and Populations course is a shift to a longitudinal research and health sciences curriculum connecting across all four years of medical school,” says Julie Taylor, MD, MSc, associate dean for medical education, and interim chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine.
Every year on the third Friday of March, medical schools celebrate one of the most pivotal and exciting days of their academic year. Known as Match Day, it is the moment when graduating medical students across the U.S. simultaneously learn where they will train for their residency programs and the […]
Results from a Geisel School of Medicine study investigating whether following a planetary health style diet during pregnancy affects preterm birth and babies’ size at birth are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Adherence to the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet during Pregnancy and Associations with Preterm Birth and Infant Size: a prospective analysis from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort.”
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