Paul Camille Tumeh MD

Dr. Paul C. Tumeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and is a member of the JCCC. Paul serves patients in his weekly melanoma specialty clinic at UCLA Medical Center. He graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors in 2005 from USC Keck School of Medicine. He then completed his medical internship in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania followed by an NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in cancer biology in Wafik Deiry’s lab at University of Pennsylvania. He completed a second postdoctoral fellowship in tumor immunology in Dr. Antoni Ribas’ lab at UCLA followed by a residency in dermatology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Paul’s research is focused on understanding how pre-existing immune cell-types within the tumor microenvironment may drive or inhibit response to therapies that block the PD1/PDL1 axis. Paul has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the JCCC, Kure It Organization, American Skin Association, and Howard-Hughes Medical Institute. His most recent publications aim to serve patients with cancer by contributing to the scientific community’s understanding of how anti-PD1 therapy works and include articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Cancer Research.