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September 3, 2020

A Father’s Perspective: Fighting Melanoma To...

Guest blog post by Joe Agosta, father of pediatric melanoma survivor Landon:  We are the Agosta family: Joe and Amanda, along with our five boys, Collin, Kaden, Landon...

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September 2, 2020

MRF Breakthrough Consortium Welcomes Fox Chase Can...

Washington, DC, September 2, 2020 – The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) is pleased to announce that Fox Chase Cancer Center has been selected as the newest member ...

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August 31, 2020

Meet the Doctor: Dr. Vernon Sondak

Meet Dr. Vernon Sondak! This year the MRF is excited to have Dr. Sondak participate in our 2020 Virtual Pediatric Melanoma Summit from September 21-25, 2020 to help spread ...

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August 31, 2020

What is Pediatric Melanoma?

Guest blog by Vernon Sondak, MD and Jane L. Messina, MD from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Sondak will be presenting at our...

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Melanoma News |
August 28, 2020

FDA Approves Foundation Medicine’s Foundatio...

Washington, DC, August 28, 2020 – This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Foundation Medicine, Inc.’s comprehensive pan-tumor liquid biopsy tes...

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Melanoma News |
July 31, 2020

FDA Approves Atezolizumab to Treat BRAF V600 Unres...

Washington, DC, July 31, 2020 – On July 30, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration approved atezolizumab (Tecentriq, Genentech, Inc.) in combination with cobimetinib...

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July 21, 2020

House Appropriations Committee Includes $20 millio...

Washington, DC, July 21, 2020 – The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) commends the House Appropriations Committee for including $20 million for Department of Defense (D...

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July 13, 2020

House Appropriations Committee Approves Funding fo...

Washington, DC, July 13, 2020 – Today the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of the Fiscal 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) Appropriations ...

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July 9, 2020

Meet the Honoree: Dr. Stephanie Frankel

Meet Dr. Stephanie Frankel! This year the MRF is honoring Dr. Frankel with the Humanitarian Award at our 2020 Denver Virtual Gala on August 6th! Get to know more about ...

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Melanoma News |
July 7, 2020

Governor DeSantis of Florida Signs Sunscreen Bill

Washington, DC, July 7, 2020 – On June 29, 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed Florida Senate Bill (SB) 172, which would overturn current and future bans and ot...

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June 11, 2020

A Commitment to Our Community

June 11, 2020 – The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) was founded in 1996 by Diana Ashby, a young woman who was frustrated that, despite significant advances in othe...

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June 1, 2020

Meet the Researcher: Mai Nguyen

Mai Nguyen received her BA from Lafayette College in 2015. She is currently working towards her PhD and has been a member of Dr. Andrew Aplin’s Lab since March 2016....

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