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Researchers

Todd Miller
Todd Miller
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Todd’s research interests center on the development of treatment strategies for breast and other cancers, and the identification of mechanisms of therapeutic resistance. He completed his B.S. in Physiology & Neurobiology at the University of Connecticut in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the University at Albany in 2004. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Carlos Arteaga at Vanderbilt University, he joined the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Cancer Center in 2012. He rose to the rank of Professor with tenure at Dartmouth in 2023, and then transitioned to the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center as a Professor in 2023.


Kim Birmingham
Kim Birmingham
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Kim develops and optimizes models of novel breast cancer. She completed her B.S. in Biology at University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point in 2001.


Patricia Muskus
Patricia Muskus
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Patricia is evaluating the role of oxidative stress in ER+ breast cancer cells through functional studies and bioinformatics. She completed her B.S. in Neuroscience at Indiana University at Indianapolis in 2017 and her M.S. in Bioinformatics at Marquette University in 2024.


Graduate Students

Anneka Johnson
Anneka Johnson
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Anneka is exploring the role of epigenetics in the therapeutic response to estrogen in breast cancer. She completed her B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire in 2019. She then joined the Cancer Biology PhD program in the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth College and is completing her thesis work in the Miller Lab.


Abby Goen
Abby Goen
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Abby is developing therapeutic strategies targeting fat metabolism in breast cancer cells.


Alyssa Roberts
Alyssa Roberts
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Alyssa aims to uncover mechanisms of DNA damage in breast cancer and explore novel combination therapies to treat recurrent disease. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry from North Dakota State University in 2021 before starting her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at Dartmouth.


Malone Friedman
Malone Friedman
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Malone is interested in understanding metabolic pathways of cancer to find better targets for treatment. She completed her B.S. in Biochemistry at North Carolina State University in 2022. She then joined the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin.


Undergraduate Students

Name Role in the lab Where are they now?
Alexa Warren Undergraduate researcher, 2021-2024 Undergraduate student at Dartmouth College
Steven Tau MD/PhD Student, 2019-2024 (F31 NRSA awardee) MD student at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Huijuan Yang PhD student, 2022-2023 Sundrud Lab at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Bianca Romo PhD student, 2018-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio, TX)
Lauren Ferridge Undergraduate researcher, 2021-2022 Undergraduate student at Dartmouth College
Christo Dragnev Undergraduate Researcher, 2022 Research Assistant in Turk Lab at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Nicole Traphagen PhD Student, 2017-2022 (F31 NRSA awardee) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA)
Amanda Jiang Undergraduate Researcher, 2017-2021 MD/PhD Student at the University of Utah School of Medicine (Salt Lake City, UT)
Jacqueline Griffin Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2021 Scientific Director of Clinical Development at Artera (Santa Barbara, CA)
Michael Zhu Undergraduate Researcher, 2018-2020 Research Assistant at Boston Children's Hospital (Boston, MA)
Jason Wells PhD Student, 2017-2020 Senior Data Scientist at Translational Sciences (Naugatuck, CT)
Charlotte McCleery Research Assistant, 2017-2019 Laboratory Operations Manager at Celdara Medical (Lebanon, NH)
Brittany Cleary Undergraduate Researcher, 2018 PhD Student in Chemistry at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Riley Hampsch (Jones) PhD Student. 2015-2018 (F31 NRSA awardee) Medical Science Liaison at AstraZeneca (Lexington, VA)
Sarah Hosford (Guyette) PhD Student, 2013-2018 Medical Science Liaison at Astrazeneca (Boston, MA)
Grace Lee Undergraduate Researcher, 2017-2018 Attorney, Management Assistant for City of Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Shee MD/PhD Student, 2015-2018 (F30 NRSA awardee) Urology Resident Physician at University of California, San Francisco
Stephanie Liu(-Lam) Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2018 Psychiatry Resident at Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Wei Yang PhD Student, 2013-2017 Principal Scientist at Loxo Oncology at Lilly (New York, NY)
Kishan Patel Undergraduate Researcher, 2016 MD/MBA Candidate, Keck School of Medicine/Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Yingying Zhang Visiting Fellow, 2015-2016
Lynn Symonds Medical Student Researcher, 2012-2016 Oncologist at University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle, WA)
Preeti Rishi Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2016 Speech Language Pathologist Clinical Fellow (Atlanta, GA)
Emily Ma Undergraduate Researcher, 2015 MD Candidate at University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD)
Kurtis Stefan Undergraduate Researcher, 2015 MD/PhD Candidate, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinatti, OH)
Menbere Wendimu Undergraduate Researcher, 2015 Virology Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim (Athens, GA)
Jennifer Bean Research Assistant, 2012-2015 Clinical Research Project Manager at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (Lebanon, NH)
Rachele Rosati Volunteer Research, 2014 Associate Director of Cancer Organoid Core at SEngine, and Lead Scientist at Cure First (Seattle, WA)
Lloye Dillon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2014 Director of Global Drug Development at Bristol-Myers Squibb (Princeton, NJ)
Rocco Morra Undergraduate Researcher, 2014 Resident physician (New York, NY)
Vivian Chen Undergraduate Researcher, 2013-2014 Physician Assistant Certified (Durham, NC)
Jennifer Chen Undergraduate researcher Research Associate at Broad Institute/MIT/Harvard (Cambridge, MA)