About Us / Medical and Research Teams

Medical and Research Teams

Our medical and research teams at the Nghiem Lab are committed to finding the innovations that will fight MCC.

Amy Alering, RN - Clinic Nurse

Amy works with Dr. Nghiem at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Skin Oncology Clinic caring for patients with Merkel cell carcinoma.
Email Amy

Song Park, MD - Dermatologist

Email Song

Tomoko Akaike, MD - Clinical Research Fellow

Email Tomoko

Erin McClure - Clinical Research Fellow

Email Erin

Neha Singh - Clinical Research Fellow

Email Neha

Krista Lachance, M.S. - Research Manager

Email Krista

Rima Kulikauskas, B.S. - Senior Research Scientist

Email Rima

Candice Church, PhD - Research Scientist

Email Candice

Thomas Pulliam, B.S. - MD PhD Student

Email Thomas

Saumya Jani, B.S. - MD PhD Student

Email Saumya

Haroldo Rodriguez, B.S. - PhD Student

Email Haroldo

Junghyun Lee, PhD - Research Fellow

Email Junghyun

Shira Tabachnick-Cherny, PhD - Research Fellow

Email Shira

Rashmi Bhakuni, PhD - Research Fellow

Email Rashmi

Pete Goff, MD, PhD - Research Fellow

Email Peter

Carina Morningstar, B.S. - Research Scientist

Email Carina

Rongxiang Lin, B.S. - Research Scientist

Email Rong

Kelsey Cahill, B.S. - Research Coordinator

Email Kelsey

Alex Fu , B.S. - Research Coordinator

Email Alex

Emily Huynh , B.S. - Research Coordinator

Email Emily

Kate Biese, B.A. - Research Coordinator

Email Kate

Nikhil Harikrishnan - Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email Nikhil

Emily Gong - Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email Emily

Ally Remington - Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email Ally

Rian Alam - Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email Rian

Ankita Menon - Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email Ankita

Smitha Chandrasekhar - Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email Smitha

Macy Gilmour - Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email Macy