Meng Wang

Proud to share our new paper in Science Advances. We show that indoor tanning causes widespread mutational damage across the skin to increase melanoma risk, especially in body sites that rarely see sunlight. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #Melanoma #SkinCancer #CancerResearch

Thrilled to share the latest manuscript from the Shain lab, cataloguing the mutations that drive the transformation of a keratinocyte into cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (and everything in between). rdcu.be/eR6jX

We need your help! We (led by ⁦@vissyelad) are⁩ testing the importance of matching reader skin color in melanoma educational materials to understanding melanoma risks. Plz take survey and share broadly ⁦@SocietyMelanoma⁩ ⁦@MelanomaReAlli⁩ nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Found @bishal_tandukar and @MengWang55. On our way to @SocietyMelanoma congress in New Orleans

I am happy to share our preprint, “Genetic evolution from keratinocytes to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma”. We would love any feedback biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Belated post, but excited to share our work on the genetic evolution of acral melanoma! This subtype of melanoma not only has different genetic landscape compared to melanomas found on sun-exposed skin, but also evolves in markedly different ways.

.@MengWang55 @ShainLab @IweiYeh @Ishanibanik1 @UCSF @UCSFCancer sequence #AcralMelanoma at different stages, find punctuated clusters of copy number alterations and specific driver mutation timing #CancerResearch @NatResCancer nature.com/articles/s4146…

I am happy to share our preprint, “Molecular effects of indoor tanning”. We would love any feedback. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Does the immune system protect against cancer? Today our study on HLA immunogenetics and lung cancer risk has been published in @ScienceMagazine led by @chirag_msk @AnniinaTervi @MiriamSaffern @EricWil39327976 @HannaMOllila @rsamstein science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

If you can, please donate to @MelanomaReAlli! They have been incredibly generous supporting our research as well as clinicians, patients and patient advocates. They provide an unparalleled forum to discuss the latest advances with inputs from many different perspectives!

Remember this preprint? It is now published @GenomeBiology genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…. To remind you, we develop software to visualize point mutations and copy number alterations in spatial transcriptomic data Congrats @liminchen15 @delahny @bishal_tandukar @DarwinChangZ @andrewlji

UCSF crew at the SMR congress @bishal_tandukar @delahny @IweiYeh @ishanibanik1 @MengWang55 Boris Bastian

Nico Starink, MRA’s Senior Associate, Registry and Grants Program, at #SMR23 presenting MRA’s poster: “Updates from RARE: A Registry for Patients with Acral and Mucosal Melanoma”

@ShainLab 😂

I had a bad typo in a paper, but fortunately I caught it. Then I wondered if others had made the same mistake but not caught it. No google, I did not mean "frameshift mutation". I meant what I typed. There are some papers out there that have discovered this elusive mutation.

@ShainLab @SocietyMelanoma Looking forward to learning the works!

I am looking forward to the @SocietyMelanoma Congress in 2 weeks in Philadelphia! If you are planning your agenda, come say hi to me and/or my trainees who are presenting.

I want to highlight a preprint from my colleagues, Boris Bastian and Dirk Hockemeyer, that unravels the mystery of the dysplastic nevus. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We thank all our wonderful collaborators for their great contributions, and all other involved people for their help. Thank all the included patients from which we obtained specimens and sequencing data. Thanks @MelanomaReAlli and many other funding sources for support.

Our discoveries can be summarized in this figure.

Excited to share our latest preprint! In thie work we showed that acral melanomas, a melanoma subtypes occurring on the skin of palms, soles & nailbeds, evolve very differently from melanomas arising from sun-exposed skin (or cutaneous melanomas).biorxiv.org/content/10.110…