Dean Merrill, MD
Assistant Professor
Dermatology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Residency Dermatology University of California San Francisco 06/2022
• Internship Medicine George Washington University 06/2019
• Research Fellow Immunology National Institutes of Health 05/2018
• MD Medicine University of Missouri-Kansas City 05/2018
• BA Economics University of Pennsylvania 05/2008

Publications (18)

Top publication keywords:
CardiomyopathiesLymphoma, T-Cell, CutaneousChitinSkinNeutrophilsDrug EruptionsMyocarditisCell WallHair FollicleExtracorporeal Membrane OxygenationEpidermisReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-deltaInterferon-gammaFacial DermatosesSkin Neoplasms

• The fungal pathogen Candida auris exposes chitin to trigger IFN? and persist in hair follicles.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2026 Merrill ED, Prudent V, Basso P, Rapp E, Moghadam P, Rodriguez A, Hung E, Hurabielle C, Cheng J, Cho RJ, Abegaze B, Buck A, Pyper K, Veinbachs A, Wells EKC, Scharschmidt TC, Rosenblum MD, Molofsky AB, …
• Lung adventitial fibroblasts support type 2 Tregs to shape the response to influenza infection.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026 Chang AA, Balcerek J, Caryotakis SE, Pyper KB, Matatia P, Wells EB, Tsukui T, Ewing-Crystal NA, Merrill ED, Mroz NM, Dahlgren MW, Cautivo KM, Taruselli MT, Nakao-Inoue H, Molofsky AV, Sheppard D, …
• Dynamic fibroblast-immune interactions shape recovery after brain injury.
  Nature 2025 Ewing-Crystal NA, Mroz NM, Larpthaveesarp A, Lizama CO, Pennington R, Chiaranunt P, Dennis JI, Chang AA, Merrill ED, Caryotakis SE, Kirthivasan N, Teo L, Tsukui T, Katewa A, McKinsey GL, Nelson SCK, …
• The emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris induces IFNγ to colonize mammalian hair follicles.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Merrill ED, Prudent V, Moghadam P, Rodriguez A, Hurabielle C, Wells EKC, Basso P, Scharschmidt TC, Rosenblum MD, Molofsky AB, Noble SM
• Dynamic fibroblast-immune interactions shape wound healing after brain injury.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Ewing-Crystal NA, Mroz NM, Chang AA, Merrill ED, Caryotakis SE, Teo L, Larpthaveesarp A, Tsukui T, Katewa A, Pennington R, McKinsey GL, Nelson S, Ciesielska A, Dahlgren MW, Paidassi H, Jain S, Aghi MK…

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• Association of Facial Pustular Neutrophilic Eruption With Messenger RNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine.
  JAMA dermatology 2021 Merrill ED, Kashem SW, Amerson EH, Pincus LB, Lang UE, Shinkai K, Chang AY
• Immunity to commensal skin fungi promotes psoriasiform skin inflammation.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 Hurabielle C, Link VM, Bouladoux N, Han SJ, Merrill ED, Lightfoot YL, Seto N, Bleck CKE, Smelkinson M, Harrison OJ, Linehan JL, Tamoutounour S, Lionakis MS, Kaplan MJ, Nakajima S, Belkaid Y
• Symmetrical drug-related intertriginous and flexural exanthema: A little-known drug allergy.
  The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice 2020 de Risi-Pugliese T, Barailler H, Hamelin A, Amsler E, Gaouar H, Kurihara F, Jullie ML, Merrill ED, Barbaud A, Moguelet P, Milpied-Homsi B, Soria A
• MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Constantinides MG, Link VM, Tamoutounour S, Wong AC, Perez-Chaparro PJ, Han SJ, Chen YE, Li K, Farhat S, Weckel A, Krishnamurthy SR, Vujkovic-Cvijin I, Linehan JL, Bouladoux N, Merrill ED, Roy S, Cua …
• Contextual control of skin immunity and inflammation by Corynebacterium.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2018 Ridaura VK, Bouladoux N, Claesen J, Chen YE, Byrd AL, Constantinides MG, Merrill ED, Tamoutounour S, Fischbach MA, Belkaid Y
• Utility of arterial stiffness assessment in children.
  Cardiology in the young 2018 Panchangam C, Merrill ED, Raghuveer G
• Differential expression of CCR4 in primary cutaneous gamma/delta (?/d) T cell lymphomas and mycosis fungoides: Significance for diagnosis and therapy.
  Journal of dermatological science 2017 Jour G, Aung PP, Merrill ED, Curry JL, Tetzlaff MT, Nagarajan P, Ivan D, Prieto VG, Duvic M, Miranda RN, Torres-Cabala CA
• Primary Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas Showing Gamma-Delta (?d) Phenotype and Predominantly Epidermotropic Pattern are Clinicopathologically Distinct From Classic Primary Cutaneous ?d T-Cell Lymphomas.
  The American journal of surgical pathology 2017 Merrill ED, Agbay R, Miranda RN, Aung PP, Tetzlaff MT, Young KH, Curry JL, Nagarajan P, Ivan D, Prieto VG, Medeiros LJ, Duvic M, Torres-Cabala CA
• Primary Cutaneous Gamma-Delta (?/d) T-cell Lymphoma: An Unusual Case With Very Subtle Histopathological Findings.
  The American Journal of dermatopathology 2016 Ramani NS, Curry JL, Merrill ED, Aung PP, Prieto V, Tetzlaff MT, Duvic M, Miranda RN, Torres-Cabala C
• Merkel Cell Carcinoma Therapeutic Update.
  Current treatment options in oncology 2016 Cassler NM, Merrill D, Bichakjian CK, Brownell I
• Vitamin D, Low-Grade Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk in Young Children: A Pilot Study.
  Pediatric cardiology 2015 Singh J, Merrill ED, Sandesara PB, Schoeneberg L, Dai H, Raghuveer G
• Outcomes after prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in children with cardiac disease--Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry study.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2013 Merrill ED, Schoeneberg L, Sandesara P, Molitor-Kirsch E, O'Brien J, Dai H, Raghuveer G
• Epidural recording of nerve conduction studies and surgical findings in radiculopathy.
  Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 1994 Sine RD, Merrill D, Date E