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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.
Graduate Students





Undergraduate Students
Name | Role in the lab | Where are they now? |
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Bianca Romo | PhD student, 2018-2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio, TX) |
Alexa Warren | Undergraduate researcher, 2021-2023 | Undergraduate student at Dartmouth College |
Lauren Ferridge | Undergraduate researcher, 2021-2022 | Undergraduate student at Dartmouth College |
Christo Dragnev | Undergraduate Researcher, 2022 | Undergraduate Student, Colby College (Waterville, ME) |
Nicole Traphagen | PhD Student, 2017-2022 | 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 | Bioinformatics Scientist at Sema4 (Stamford, CT) |
Michael Zhu | Undergraduate Researcher, 2018-2020 | Research Assistant at Boston Children's Hospital (Boston, MA) |
Jason Wells | PhD Student, 2017-2020 | Bioinformatics Scientist at Sema4 (Stamford, 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 | 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 | Urology Resident Physician at University of California, San Francisco |
Stephanie Liu | Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2018 | |
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 |