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To support medical RESEARCH for finding effective treatments and eventually a cure for melanoma.

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To EDUCATE patients and physicians about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of melanoma.

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To act as an ADVOCATE for the melanoma community to raise the awareness of this disease and the need for a cure.

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Scientific Advisory Committee
The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) supports scientific research directed at finding effective treatments and ultimately a cure for malignant melanoma.


To guide its research activities, the Foundation has appointed a Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) composed of leading clinical and pre-clinical melanoma researchers.


The members of the MRF SAC are currently:

Boris Bastian, MD
Associate Professor                                                             Dermatology  more....

Marianne Berwick, PhD, MPH
Professor and Chief, Division of Epidemiology Head, Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention University o  more....

Paul B. Chapman, MD
Melanoma Section, Clinical Immunology Service Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, N  more....

Alistair J. Cochran, MD
Department of Pathology and Lab. Medicine UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, CA     more....

David E. Fisher, MD, PhD
Department of Pediatric Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School     more....

Elizabeth A. Grimm, PhD
Frances King Black Memorial Professor of Melanoma Research Department of Experimental Therapeutic  more....

Ruth Halaban, MD
Senior Research Scientist                                                        Yale Univer  more....

Allan Halpern, MD
Chief, Dermatology Service                                                   Memorial Sloan  more....

Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD.
President & Scientific Director                                              Medical Resear  more....

Meenhard Herlyn, D.V.M., D.Sc.
The Wistar Institute                                                                               more....

Patrick Hwu, MD
Professor & Chair                                                              Department o  more....

Howard L. Kaufman, MD, FACS
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia University New York, NY   more....

Randy Lomax
Chair, Melanoma Research Foundation San Francisco, C  more....

Ze'ev Ronai, PhD
Derald H. Ruttenberg Cancer Center Mount Sinai School of Medicin  more....

Lynn Schuchter, MD, Elect
Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology University of Pennsylvani  more....

Vernon K. Sondak, MD
Professor of Surgery Division of Surgical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Ann Arbor, M  more....

Nancy E. Thomas, MD, PhD
  Associate Professor Department of Dermatology University of North Carolina   more....

Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine Microbiology and Immunology Keck/USC School of Medicine Asociate Di  more....

Forming SAC Members
  Michael Atkins James Goydos   Meenhard Herlyn David Hogg   John Kirkwood Glenn M  more....

Fear of Recurrence Teleconference - September 17, 2008

Annual Melanoma Symposium - Irvine CA, Oct. 11

Educational Programs

MRF Supporter: John Dane III, member of the 2008 US Olympic Sailing Team

MRF Press Room

Low prevalence of cdkn2a arf mutations among early-onset cancers of breast, pancreas and malignant melanoma in poland.

Oncogenic brafv600e inhibits bim expression to promote melanoma cell survival

Phase ii trial of imatinib mesylate in patients with metastatic melanoma

Angiostatic activity of obtustatin as [alpha]1[beta]1 integrin inhibitor in experimental melanoma growth

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