How does skin and blood immunity affect development of melanoma
09 September 2019
We are studying how the immune system both in the skin and in the blood can predispose people to developing melanoma.
We are studying a group of patients with Familial Melanoma Syndrome, who have a mutation in a vital gene which helps prevent cancer. This gene doesn't function as well for these patients and so they develop melanoma.
To see what differences in the immune system they have, we need to compare experiments done with their blood and skin to those of normal, healthy volunteers.
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Ethical approval
This study has been approved by University College London Hospitals, and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital ethics departments
About the researcher
I'm a trainee dermatologist and PhD student at UCL
