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The University of Washington's Nghiem Lab held its annual Merkel CELLebration & Dinner on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at the UW Medicine Research Campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Each year the Nghiem Lab hosts the event to share the latest advances in the treatment of Merkel cell car...

The 7th Nordic Merkel Cell Carcinoma Meeting will take place in Stockholm, Sweden on September 14-15, 2023. The preliminary program includes 4 different themes: Merkel cell polyomavirus and oncogenesis, Merkel cell carcinoma biology, Biomarkers, and Immunotherapy & clinical trials.

The UW Division of Dermatology hosted the 2nd International Symposium on Merkel Cell Carcinoma in Seattle, Wash, from April 25-26, 2022. The two-day hybrid (in-person and virtual) event held at the Graduate Hotel brought together over 140 thought leaders, active investigators, faculty and trainee...

This is a presentation given by Paul Ngheim to University of Washington’s Department of Immunology. It is a scientific, detailed summary of how our understanding of the role of the immune system in Merkel cell carcinoma has developed over the past decade. It highlights how our current immune thera...

The 2nd International Symposium on Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) will take place Monday, April 25, 2022, 7:00 AM - Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 4:00 PM at the University of Washington in Seattle. The symposium is designed to explore emerging data that may allow improvements in understand the basic biology...

Dr. Paul Ngheim, professor and head of the UW Medicine Division of Dermatology, recently gave the keynote lecture at the 17th annual Wallace H. Clark, Jr., MD Lectureship in Cutaneous Oncology and Melanoma Symposium, held virtually on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. Dr. Nghiem focused his lect...

This year we will held our second online Merkel CELLebration in lieu of our annual Merkel Dinner. The event took place on Zoom on Monday, September 13, 2021. The event included a presentation of new research and clinical developments in MCC, as well as clinical trial updates. Meeting attendees inclu...

On September 9, 2019 in Seattle, over 280 patients, family members, clinicians, scientists, pharmaceutical partners, and trainees from across the United States gathered for the 14th annual Merkel cell carcinoma Dinner Meeting. The evening began with a bit of social gathering, beautiful music (vio...

Living with Merkel Cell Carcinoma is a free workshop series organized by CancerCare and can be attended over the phone or online. Part I of the series, Treatment Perspectives on Merkel Cell Carcinoma, will take place on November 15, 2019, 1:30-2:30 pm ET and will feature a panel of experts includ...

On March 4th, 2019, Dr. Paul Nghiem received the Eugene J. Van Scott Award for Innovative Therapy and delivered the Philip Frost Leadership lecture in Washington, D.C. He discussed the need to prioritize treatment modalities that are less toxic and more effective for Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC). On...