We are working hard to make new discoveries about Merkel Cell Polyomavirus. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with MCC, check out our page for patients and friends for resources and information.
Yuan & Pat to present the 30th Biennial Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture to the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin, March 26-29, 2012.
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"Viruses and Human Cancer: Merkel Cell Polyomavirus and Merkel Cell Carcinoma"
ASCCP Biennial Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 27, 2010
Speaker: Patrick S. Moore, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Initial description of MCV including its role in human cancer, early work on MCV culture and development of a serologic test.