Paul Nghiem, M.D., Ph.D.
USA
Professor, Chair of George F. Odland Endowed and the Interim Chair of the Department of Dermatology, University of Washington, Seattle ,USA<br>Affiliate Investigator & Clinical Director of Skin Oncology at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Dr. Paul Nghiem (pronounced KNEE-em) is the George F. Odland Endowed Chair, and the Interim Chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He sees patients at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
He grew up in Olympia, Washington, attended Harvard College and then obtained MD and PhD degrees at Stanford University where he studied Cancer Biology and Immunology.
He did his Dermatology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He worked on UV-DNA damage responses as a Howard Hughes Post-Doctoral Fellow with Stuart Schreiber in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
In 2003, he started his own lab at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 2006, together with their two young boys, he and his wife moved 'home' to Seattle. He has published over 180 papers that in aggregate have been cited over 21,000 times.
In 1996, as a dermatology resident, Dr. Nghiem saw a man with a firm lesion on the lip that turned out to be his first case of Merkel cell carcinoma. He was later encouraged by his professors to write a book chapter on this rare disease. Surprisingly, MCC patients began coming regularly to his clinic for help with this complicated cancer.
Today, he leads a multi-disciplinary team focused on improving management of MCC. Studies led by his team resulted in the first two FDA-approved therapies for MCC, as well as a blood test that is now routinely used clinically to detect recurrent MCC earlier and more reliably than scans.
He leads an NIH Program Project Grant that brings together scientists to study the immune response to MCC and the Merkel polyomavirus that typically causes this cancer.
Given his long-term interest in cancer biology and immunology, Dr. Nghiem feels fortunate to study a disease in which cancer immunology has helped improve the lives of patients.
He grew up in Olympia, Washington, attended Harvard College and then obtained MD and PhD degrees at Stanford University where he studied Cancer Biology and Immunology.
He did his Dermatology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He worked on UV-DNA damage responses as a Howard Hughes Post-Doctoral Fellow with Stuart Schreiber in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
In 2003, he started his own lab at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 2006, together with their two young boys, he and his wife moved 'home' to Seattle. He has published over 180 papers that in aggregate have been cited over 21,000 times.
In 1996, as a dermatology resident, Dr. Nghiem saw a man with a firm lesion on the lip that turned out to be his first case of Merkel cell carcinoma. He was later encouraged by his professors to write a book chapter on this rare disease. Surprisingly, MCC patients began coming regularly to his clinic for help with this complicated cancer.
Today, he leads a multi-disciplinary team focused on improving management of MCC. Studies led by his team resulted in the first two FDA-approved therapies for MCC, as well as a blood test that is now routinely used clinically to detect recurrent MCC earlier and more reliably than scans.
He leads an NIH Program Project Grant that brings together scientists to study the immune response to MCC and the Merkel polyomavirus that typically causes this cancer.
Given his long-term interest in cancer biology and immunology, Dr. Nghiem feels fortunate to study a disease in which cancer immunology has helped improve the lives of patients.