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.
Jack Hoopes, DVM, PhD, professor of surgery and radiation oncology at Geisel School of Medicine, and adjunct professor of engineering at Thayer School of Engineering, died on Sunday, August 10.
Dartmouth Cancer Center was recently re-designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). A division of the National Institutes of Health, NCI bestows the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation to less than 60 of the 3,500 cancer centers nationwide.
The new Biological Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Shared Resource at the Geisel School of Medicine provides investigators across Dartmouth’s research community new tools and resources for studying the molecular components of the human cell. This capability helps researchers to make disease diagnoses, identify new biomarkers and drug targets, and gain a deeper understanding of biological processes and the causes of diseases such as cancer.
Dartmouth Health has received a $2.5 million gift from generous donors and former Dartmouth-Hitchcock Trustee Barbara Couch and her husband, Dick Couch D’64, Thayer ’65, to establish the Couch Endowed Fund for Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowships at Dartmouth Cancer Center.
Steven D. Leach, MD, director of the Dartmouth Cancer Center, is among the newly elected board members of the Association of American Cancer Institutes.
New study from Dartmouth Cancer Center re-examines claims of high pediatric cancer rates in New Hampshire to show that no single state in the Northeast is an outlier when taking important factors into consideration.
Despite professional guidelines recommending early serious illness conversations for all patients with advanced cancer, many times these conversations occur, late or not at all. A collaborative research initiative at Dartmouth Cancer Center shows promise in improving patient–clinician communication by increasing the conduct and documentation of these important conversations in two medical oncology clinics.
Thirty-five Dartmouth teams have participated in the accelerator over the past two years. Their research could save and prolong patients’ lives, and may even cure cancer.
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