A collaborative of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania, and Tokyo Medical and Dental University received $1.4 million from Japan’s Global Health Innovative Technology Fund to conduct a joint randomized clinical trial in Tanzania aimed at reducing the transmission of tuberculosis.
Articles by: Susan Green
An Eye on Microgravity
Nearly half of the astronauts on long-duration space flights return to Earth with changes in their vision and Geisel professor Jay Buckey, a former astronaut himself, is on a mission to find out why.
Geisel Researcher Receives Prestigious $3.7M National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award
Giovanni Bosco, PhD, an associate professor of genetics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. The five-year grant supports exceptional investigators pursuing bold, highly innovative research projects.
Tropical Medicine Fellowship Awarded to Geisel Student Adrianna Stanley
Second-year Geisel School of Medicine student Adrianna Stanley received a Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine. The Fellowship, given by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, is dedicated to nurturing medical students interested in tropical medicine.
Dartmouth’s NH-INBRE Program Receives $18.1M to Expand Biomedical Research and Training in New Hampshire
The Dartmouth-led NH-INBRE program—a statewide collaborative partnership of two- and four-year colleges—has received a five-year $18.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue a successful program aimed at expanding biomedical research capacity and training in New Hampshire.
Geisel Receives $5 million NIH Grant to Study Motivation and Behavior Change to Improve Health
The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health has been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the mechanisms—psychological or biological—that underpin motivation, with an eye to developing better strategies that can help all of us improve our health.
Geisel MD-PhD Student Receives Priscilla Schaffer Award
Geisel MD-PhD candidate Yike Jiang received the Priscilla Schaffer Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation during the 40th annual International Herpesvirus Workshop, which brings together more than 600 investigators from around the world.
Dartmouth Receives NIH Grant to Launch Northeast Node of National Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded a five-year $3.8 million grant to Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. The award will support the launch of the new Northeast Node in NIDA’s National Clinical Trials Network, and clinical trials conducted by the Node will be supported by additional research project grants from NIDA, part of the National Institutes of Health.
AAMC Award for Geisel and CHaD Project to Improve Care of Opioid-Exposed Newborns
A team of Geisel faculty, students, and pediatric staff at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock received a Clinical Care Innovation Challenge Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges for creating a new model of care for in utero opioid-exposed and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome-affected newborns.
Wennberg International Collaborative Policy Conference Accelerates Reach of the Dartmouth Atlas
Policymakers, physicians, and researchers from around the world gathered to discuss the value of measuring health care at a local level during the Wennberg International Collaborative’s first open international policy conference held last month in Berlin, Germany.