Discover Funded Researchers

2022

Emily Cowen

Investigating Automated Melanoma Screening for Newly Acquired Lesions

2024, SMR Young Investigator Award

Vito Rebecca, PhD

SMR Young Investigator Award

2023, Medical Student Award

Nora Alexander

Interobserver Variability in Histopathologic Diagnosis of Melanocytic Neoplasms

2023, Medical Student Award

Moriah Arnold

The Role of Alpha-Synuclein in Melanomagenesis via Nucleolar DNA Double-Strand Break Repair

2023, Medical Student Award

Lauren Banner

Assessing the effect of a community outreach initiative on melanoma early detection and awareness

2023, Medical Student Award

Lauren Fahmy

Understanding the Role of Lipid Antigens in the Melanoma Tumor Microenvironment

2023, Medical Student Award

Connor Forsyth

cGAS Agonist DNA Dendrons for the Treatment of Leptomeningeal Melanoma Metastasis

2023, Medical Student Award

Emily Gorden

Using Circulating Tumor DNA and Exosomes to Predict Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Receiving Systemic Immunotherapy or Liver-Directed Immunoembolization

2023, Medical Student Award

Sharif Hosein

Designing and Validating a Melanoma Prediction Model with Automated Image Classification

2023, Medical Student Award

Erik Jaklitsch

Evaluating the Impact of Teledermatology on Access, Detection, and Clinical Prognosticators of Melanoma

2023, Medical Student Award

Mohamed Kassir

Mitophagy and the anti-melanoma activity of T-cells in Alzheimer’s disease

2023, Medical Student Award

Daniel Kim

Real-world efficacy and clinical predictors of immunotherapy response among Veteran uveal melanoma patients

2023, Medical Student Award

Sainiteesh Maddineni

Investigating Immune Interactions of Intraepithelial ILC1-like Natural Killer Cells in Melanoma

2023, Medical Student Award

Summer Meyer

The Genetic Aberrations Underlying Melanocytic Tumors and Juvenile Xanthogranulomas in Individuals with Neurofibromatosis Type 1

2023, Medical Student Award

Stephanie Mills

Understanding the Role of Peroxisomes in Regulating Metabolic Fitness of T Cells

2023, Medical Student Award

Arina Nisanova

Risk Factor Analysis of Young Patients with Uveal Melanoma Treated with Proton Beam Therapy

2023, Medical Student Award

Pritika Parmar

Investigating the Systemic Microbiome in Mucosal Melanoma

2023, Medical Student Award

Jude Raj

Mechanisms of Macrophage Evasion in Residual Melanoma

2023, Medical Student Award

Megen Wittling

Defining the dynamics of ICOS+ CD4 T cell responses that underlie successful immunotherapy responses in patients with melanoma

2023, Career Development Award

Ze'ev Ronai, PhD

Targeting the eIF4F, Translation Initiation Complex, in Melanoma

2023, Established Investigator Award

Pere Puigserver, PhD

NKT infiltration and rejection in melanomas

2023, Established Investigator Award

Kari Kendra, MD, PhD

TGFßi NK Cell Infusions in Patients with Melanoma Brain Metastases

2023, Established Investigator Award

Poulikos Poulikakos, PhD

Targeting an adaptor function of CDK6 to enhance melanoma immunotherapy

2023, Career Development Award

Inaki Etxeberria, PhD

Immunogenic landscape and therapeutic targeting of NRAS public Neoantigens

2023, Career Development Award

Joshua Veatch, MD, PhD

Targeting melanoma with engineered CD4+ T cells

2023, Career Development Award

Lilit Karapetyan, MD

Deciphering the role of APRIL/TNFSF13 in melanoma-associated TLS formation

2023, Career Development Award

Xiaonan Xu, MD, PhD

Understand metastasis of uveal melanoma in vivo via novel mouse models

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