Lizotte receives doctorate

    HANOVER, N.H. — Patrick H. Lizotte received his Ph.D. in immunology from the Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Program at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College on April 28, after successful defense of his doctoral thesis.

    Dr. Lizotte, son of Tom and Leslie Lizotte of Dover-Foxcroft, is a 2002 graduate of Foxcroft Academy, where he was class valedictorian. He earned his undergraduate degree from Colby College, magna cum laude, with majors in Biology and History in 2006.
    After graduation from Colby, Lizotte worked for four years as a laboratory technician in Cambridge, Mass., at The Broad Institute, a biomedical research facility operated in a partnership between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began graduate school at Dartmouth in 2010 after being selected for a fellowship that provided him with a full-tuition scholarship and annual stipend throughout the five years of his studies and laboratory research in the school’s Molecular and Cellular Biology Program.
    At Dartmouth, Lizotte’s course work included biochemistry, cell and molecular biology genetics, immunology, and molecular pathogenesis. In recent years, his laboratory research was conducted at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center under the supervision of Professor Steven N. Fiering, whose lab develops immune-based strategies for treating cancer. Dartmouth’s medical school was established in 1797 and is the fourth-oldest in America.