News & Publications
The latest news and publications about Merkel cell carcinoma and merkelcell.org.
The 16th Annual MCC Multi-center Interest Group (MMIG) Meeting took place on March 25, 2022 at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Here we summarize talks given by Lisa Zaba, MD, PhD, Lindsay Gunnell, MD, Sophia Shalhout, PhD, Mackenzie Martin, BA, Anna Szumera-Cieckiew...
Read more →Congratulations to several members of the Nghiem Lab Research Team whose recent proposal was selected to receive over $1.2 million in award funding through The Mark Foundation to support their innovative Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) research. The research team includes Peter Goff, MD, PhD, Senior...
Read more →Congratulations to UW Dermatology’s Nghiem Lab Research Team, and partners from around the world, who have recently been awarded a $4 million grant from Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD) to develop and clinically test the ImmPACT cell product in Merkel cell carcinoma. The project will explore the po...
Read more →MCC made it into the NY Times in the form of this fascinating medical mystery story. A ‘paraneoplastic syndrome’ is when a tumor causes a process to happen in the body indirectly, such as via an immune response to the tumor that attacks another part of the body (as happened here) or because the ...
Read more →The first-ever therapeutic vaccine trial for Merkel cell carcinoma is set to start in April 2022, based in Seattle. This will be a small trial in only eight patients to initially check safety and whether the immune response targeting the Merkel cell polyomavirus is indeed increased in these patients...
Read more →Dr. Mac Cheever was a true pioneer in immune therapy for cancer. His efforts have helped many patients with cancer, but particularly those with Merkel cell carcinoma, helping to lead to the approval of anti-PD1 for MCC. This tribute to his life details why he believed that immune therapy for cancer ...
Read more →Dear friends of Merkel cell carcinoma research, Greetings! I hope that you are having a wonderful start to the holiday season. Your partnership is vital to accelerating discoveries that will continue to unlock better outcomes for patients and their families, today and for years to come. I...
Read more →Congratulations to several members of the Nghiem Lab Research Team whose recent proposal was selected to receive $20,000 in award funding through Seattle Translational Tumor Research (STTR), to support their innovative Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) research project.
Read more →A recent study titled, “Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Top 100 Cited Publications,” has named the University of Washington Division of Dermatology as the leading and most frequently cited institutions for Merkel Cell Carcinoma articles having published 36 percent of the to...
Read more →The work done by the Seattle MCC Team is being featured at significant European meetings and is briefly summarized in this newsletter of the European Academy of Dermato-Oncology (EADO) a top organization focused in skin cancer in Europe.
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