Dr. Jim Yong Kim Appointed 17th President of Dartmouth College
Dedicated Educator and Humanitarian Has Provided Visionary Leadership in Academia, Public Policy and Global Health Continues Long Tradition of Dartmouth Presidents Who Have Had Significant Impact On the World Stage and in the Classroom HANOVER, N.H., March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- J...Chronically Ill Patients Get More Care, Less Quality, Says Latest Dartmouth Atlas
The Fix? A Major Overhaul of Medicare LEBANON, N.H., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medicare pays many hospitals and their doctors more than the most efficient and effective health care institutions to treat chronically ill people, yet gets worse results, according to a new repo...Rural patients' colon and lung cancers diagnosed earlier, Dartmouth research says
Rural patients are often assumed to be the top truants in American medicine, not seeking medical attention until a condition is more advanced and less treatable. However, a new study by Dartmouth researchers suggests that urban, not rural, patients are most likely to slip through the cracksat leas...Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find
Hanover, NH--Imagine taking a vitamin for longevity! Not yet, but a Dartmouth discovery that a cousin of niacin prolongs lifespan in yeast brings the tantalizing possibility a step closer. The research, reported in the May 4 issue of Cell, shows how a new vitamin extends lifespan in yeast ...Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find
Hanover, NH--Imagine taking a vitamin for longevity! Not yet, but a Dartmouth discovery that a cousin of niacin prolongs lifespan in yeast brings// the tantalizing possibility a step closer. The research, reported in the May 4 issue of Cell, shows how a new vitamin extends lifespan in yeast c...George Barrett Named Chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health
.... Thomas Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award; and the 2005 Kaitz Foundation Diversity Champion. Britt received a bachelor's degree in economics from dartmouth College, where he graduated magna cum laude. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Britt received an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration...Dartmouth gets $3 million from the National Science Foundation for IT research in health care
... HANOVER, NH dartmouth has received a $3 million grant from the National ...://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/projects/tish.html , the dartmouth research will address fundamental challenges in in...or for TISH and a professor of computer science at dartmouth College. "Developing, deploying, and using informa...Consumer Reports Launches Online Hospital Ratings for More Than 3,400 U.S. Hospitals
...ensity of care rankings are based on data from the dartmouth Atlas of Health Care and the dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. "Our colleagues at dartmouth have found that patients who live in regions with ...Back to Normal: Surgery Improves Outcomes for Spine Patients
...pared to non-operative approaches," said study author James Weinstein, DO, MS, Third Century Professor and Chair of the departments of orthopaedics at dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Weinstein and his colleagues collected data from 607 men and women diagnosed with spo...For Old or Young Dialysis Patients, AV Fistulas Remain Pure Gold
...at www.SIRweb.org . Abstract 121: "Evaluation of Post-Interventional Patency of AV Fistulas in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients," M.P. Bazylewicz, dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.; A. Forauer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center -- vascular and interventional radiology, Lebanon, NH; and K.A. Pattin, ...Cethromycin Achieves All Endpoints in Second Pivotal Phase III Trial for Treatment of Pneumonia
...n the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree at dartmouth in 1959 and his medical degree at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse in 1963. His training in internal medicine was done at the Brigham Hospital in Bo...Reata's Synthetic Triterpenoids Profiled in Nature Reviews Cancer
...ment of cancer," by researchers and Reata scientific collaborators from the dartmouth Medical School Karen T. Liby, Mark M. Yore and Michael B. Sporn, focuses on...s." Reata in-licensed the complete series of Synthetic Triterpenoids from dartmouth and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2004. RTA 402, t...Synta Presents Results for STA-4783 in Metastatic Melanoma Showing Improvement in Overall Survival
...s with advanced metastatic malignant melanoma. J Clin Oncol 2000; 18(1):158-166; -- Chapman PB, et al: Phase III multicenter randomized trial of the dartmouth regimen versus dacarbazine in patients with metastatic melanoma. J Clin Oncol 1999; 17(9):2745-2751 -- Bedikian AY, et al: Bcl-2 antisense (oblimers...Medical Scientist Training Program
... student financial support funded by the schools themselves. A few of the more popular non-MSTP MD/PhD programs include those at Boston University , dartmouth College , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Wayne State University , University of Southern California , Ohio State University , and th...GlycoFi and Dartmouth report full humanization of yeast glycosylation pathway in Science
For the first time, scientists have engineered yeast cells capable of producing a broad repertoire of recombinant therapeutic proteins with fully human sugar structures (glycosylation). These sugar structures ensure a glycoprotein's biological activity and half-life and to date, have necessitated t...Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods
...y Stephen Jos Hanson, psychology professor at Rutgers; Russell A. Poldrack, professor at UCLA, and Yaroslav Halchenko, (now a post-doctoral student at dartmouth College), have provided direct evidence that a person's mental state can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy through functional magnetic reson...Sustainable bioenergy project has global launch
...t is led by Richard, Nathanael Greene, Natural Resources Defense Council who chairs the steering committee and Lee Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering, dartmouth College and Mascoma Corporation. The first stage of the project is a series of five meetings scheduled around the world beginning in Malaysia in Novem...MBL director and CEO and cell biology pioneer Gary Borisy elected to National Academy of Sciences
...s of the Corporation, faculty, or alumni. Among this year's inductees are MBL alumni Lorena Beese of Duke University Medical Center and Jay Dunlap of dartmouth Medical School and former MBL course faculty Caroline Harwood of the University of Washington and Paul Sternberg of the California Institute of Techno...Increasing levels of rare element found worldwide
... HANOVER, NH dartmouth researchers have determined that the presence of t... introduced to remove smog from car exhaust," says dartmouth Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Mukul Sharma...t adversely affect biology." Sharma worked with dartmouth Ph.D. student Cynthia Chen and Peter Sedwick at Ol...Unlikely life thriving at Antarctica's Blood Falls
...robes converted Fe(III) to Fe(II) to create food and energy. The study was led by Jill Mikucki, a National Science Foundation-funded researcher at dartmouth College. Mikucki and a team of researchers based their analysis on samples taken at the ominously, but aptly named Blood Falls, a water-fall-like feat...Ancient ecosystem thrives millions of years below Antarctic glacier
... doctoral degree at MSU and her postdoctoral research at Harvard. Mikucki, whose project was funded by the National Science Foundation, now teaches at dartmouth College and continues to work with Priscu. One co-author on the Science article was Peter Lee at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S....Wildlife biologist named Roger Tory Peterson Medal recipient, speaker
...rs and eight books, including "Lemurs of Madagascar," a comprehensive field guide to Madagascar's flagship species. Mittermeier received his B.A. from dartmouth College in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in biological anthropology in 1977. HMNH inaugurated the memorial lecture in 1997 to keep a...Missing piece of plant clock found
... Pruneda-Paz and his co-authors "solve a major puzzle in our understanding of the plant clock," wrote C. Robertson McClung, professor of biology at dartmouth College, in a commentary on the article that will appear in the same issue of Science . Evidence increasingly points to the clock as a critical ...Sea Grant awards $820,000 for research under EPA's Long Island Sound study
...tom of Long Island Sound. Mark Altabet of the Department of Estuarine and Ocean Science, School of Marine and Technology, University of Massachusetts, dartmouth will look at the geochemistry of dissolved gases in the Sound to gain insight into oxygen exchange between surface and bottom waters. Robert Wilson a...Cequent Names Ted Hibben Chief Business Officer
...ided Ontogeny's merger with Reprogenesis and Creative Biomolecules. Mr. Hibben has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from dartmouth College . About Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ( www.cequentpharma.com ) An early-stage biopharmaceutical company, Cequent is pioneering the ...Human Genome Sciences Appoints David P. Southwell to its Board of Directors
... Division, at Lehman Brothers in New York. Mr. Southwell graduated from Rice University, and received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at dartmouth College. Mr. Southwell serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for BioSphere Medical, Inc. and is a member of the Board of Directors of PTC Thera...Quintiles Appoints New Executives
... She earned her bachelor's degree from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, and her master's degree at Columbia University, followed by an MBA at dartmouth College. David joins Quintiles from Dendrite International where he was the VP of Global Marketing and led both Marketing and Corporate Communicatio...Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head
...and Security, and also included Donald's graduate student Igor Paprotny and dartmouth College physicist Christopher Levey. Donald has been working on various ... MEMS microrobots since 1992, initially at Cornell and then at Stanford and dartmouth before coming to Duke. The first versions were arrays of microorganism-mimi...Springer publishes anthology with the Nanoethics Group
...k Lin, Ph.D., director for The Nanoethics Group. The volume is co-edited by Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan Univ.) and Patrick Lin (Cal Poly, SLO; dartmouth College) and presents papers by notable names in nanotechnology and nanoethics, including (in order of appearance): Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford), Paul...Cleveland Clinic and Rutgers to Lead Newly Formed Institute for War Wounded
...academic partners in the Rutgers-Cleveland Clinic consortium are: Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Mellon University, Stony Brook University, dartmouth College, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, U...