Geisel MD-PhD student and 2014-2015 Syvertsen Fellow Fadzai Chinyengetere wants to use the knowledge and skills she has developed at Dartmouth to help improve health care in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Dartmouth Researchers Reprogram Tumor’s Cells to Attack Itself
Inserting a specific strain of bacteria into the microenvironment of aggressive ovarian cancertransforms the behavior of tumor cells from suppression to immunostimulation, researchers at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have found.
Helping Women Make Better Decisions About Their Health
Decision scientists, such as Elissa Ozanne, are helping women to better understand the risks they face, whether perceived or actual, when thinking about breast cancer.
Are Super Bowl beer ads a bad idea?
In an opinion piece at CNN.com, Dr. James D. Sargent, theStuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology, says that parents should approach ads for alcoholic beverages with great caution in light of a new study led by Dr. Sargent and his colleagues, which showed that youths’ exposure to alcohol advertisements influenced their drinking behaviors.
Dartmouth Researchers Determine Key Element in Circadian Clock Speed
In a discovery that may lead to new treatments for sleep disorders, jet lag and other health problems tied to circadian rhythms, researchers have identified a determinant of the circadian clock’s period. Their findings appear in the January 29th issue of Science magazine.
Geisel Researchers Named Inaugural AAI Fellows
Dartmouth researchers are among 37 principal investigators and their dedicated trainees to receive the American Association of Immunologists inaugural Careers in Immunology Fellowship award.
Noisy Data Facilitates Dartmouth Research of Breast Cancer Gene Expression
Researchers from Dartmouth‘s Norris Cotton Cancer Center reported in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing on the use of denoting autoencoders to effectively extract key biological principles from gene expression data and summarize them into constructed features with convenient properties.
New Study Sheds Light on Genetic Mutations in Autism Disorders
Recent research has linked autism with a lack of “pruning” in developing brain connections, but a new study by researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine suggests instead it is the excessive growth of new connections that causes sensory overload in people with the disorder.
Poverty, Healthcare & Access: Where Do We Go from Here? 2015 MLK Celebration
The 2015 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at the Geisel School of Medicine will explore current limitations barring universal access to healthcare, and the underlying problems in order to contemplate opportunities for meaningful progress.
Nara Michaelson: Music and Medicine in Concert
As both an aspiring physician and a musician, first-year Geisel medical student Nara Michaelson believes rather than being at odds, music can complement, renew, and strengthen a life in medicine.