Paul Nghiem Laboratory


		For detail on any of these news items click here For information regarding Merkel cell carcinoma research and patient care click here. Dr. Nghiem is featured in a City Living Seattle article. May 2009 Dr. Shinichi Koba from Saga Medical School in Japan joins the lab. April 2009 Masoki Kawasumi and Tim Heffernan publish a possible rationale for caffeine's UV protective effects. The article is met with great press coverage. Feb 2009 Dr. Nghiem is featured on Seattle King 5's Cancer Breakthroughs special. Dec 2008 Miranda Schmidt, UW undergraduate joins the lab. Dec 2008 Sherry Lee, UW undergraduate joins the lab. Sept 2008 Heather Sloan, RN/BS, from UW and Renee Thibodeau, BS, from Whitman College join the lab. June 2008 Dr. Nghiem discusses the role of caffeine in skin cancer prevention to Science Central. April 2008. The effect of caffeine on the ATR/Chk1 pathway in mice is published in Cancer Research. April 2008. Dr. Nghiem is featured in the Seattle PI for his work on caffeine's role in preventing skin cancer, March 2008. Ashley Warcola, BS, from the Univesity of Portland joins the lab, July 2007 Erin Higgins, University of Washington undegraduate joins the lab, February 2007 The role of topical caffeine after UV in protecting from photodamage is described in the British Journal of Dermatology, 2007. Kelly Garneski, MD/PhD student from University of Washington joins the lab, July 2006 Bianca Lemos, MD, from UWMC, joins the lab, July 2006 "Protein Kinases and Cancer Therapy" featured in Oncogenomics textbook Nghiem lab moves to Seattle/U of Wash/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in 2006 Tim Heffernan, PhD, from UNC Chapel Hill, joins the lab Merkel Cell Carcinoma website launched (merkelcell.org) Masaoki Kawasumi, MD, PhD, from Keio University joins the lab. Five-year NIH Grant Awarded to the lab: "The Replication Checkpoint and Genomic Fidelity in Skin." Essential role for ATR in the regulation of chromosomal fragile sites described in Cell. Last Updated: 6/9/09