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October 31, 2025

2025 SMR Christopher J. Marshall Award 

Simone Lubrano, PhD My research aims to understand why some melanomas stop responding to treatments over time and to identify new ways to make these therapies more effectiv...

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October 29, 2025

2025 SMR Young Investigator Award 

Joanna Pozniak, PhD My current research focuses on understanding how individual patients’ tumors react to immune-centered therapies (immunotherapy). To capture the full p...

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September 29, 2025

Leveraging GSDMD-Mediated Pyroptosis as a Therap...

Dan Erkes‘s Abstract Melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer, leading to an estimated 8,290 deaths and 100,640 new cases in 2024. Melanoma was traditionally ...

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September 29, 2025

VISTA-Positive Neutrophils in Melanoma Immunothera...

Daniel Hirschhorn‘s Abstract Immunotherapy has greatly improved survival for people with melanoma, but many patients also experience harmful side effects wh...

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September 29, 2025

Mapping the Death and Growth of Tumor Cells in Mel...

Kenneth Hu‘s Abstract Immunotherapies including immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) have seen remarkable success in the clinic. Unfortunately, many patients with late-st...

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September 29, 2025

Investigating the Role of Cancer-Associated Fibrob...

Emily Bernstein‘s Abstract Melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer, and the success of current therapies remains limited. To better tailor melanoma treatments, we m...

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September 29, 2025

Pedigree Approach to Identify Predisposition Varia...

Lisa Cannon-Albright‘s Abstract Analysis of large families with more disease than expected has been shown to be a powerful way to identify cancer predisposition g...

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September 29, 2025

Next-Generation RAF-Targeting Strategies for RAS-M...

Mathieu Desaunay‘s Abstract Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, with melanoma being the deadliest form. In the United States, approximately 104,9...

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September 29, 2025

Transforming therapy for Acral and Mucosal Melanom...

Mona Foth‘s Abstract Acral and mucosal melanomas(A&MM) are rare but aggressive types of melanoma, making up less than 5% of all cases. Unlike the more common typ...

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September 29, 2025

Redirecting Antiviral Immune Responses to Elimina...

Thorsten Mempel‘s Abstract While immunotherapy has greatly improved the survival for patients with melanoma of the sun-exposed skin, especially for those with adva...

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September 29, 2025

Overcoming Drug Resistance in NRAS-Mutant Melanoma...

Hee Won Yang‘s Abstract Melanoma is an aggressive type of skin cancer known for its rapid spread and frequent resistance to current treatments. Many advanced melanoma...

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September 29, 2025

 Inhibiting ligand-driven BMP Signaling to Overco...

Craig Ceol‘s Abstract The use of immunotherapies has revolutionized treatment for late-stage melanoma patients. These therapies have extended survival for many patien...

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Nov 09, 2025 ET

MRF Brain Metastases Summit 4.0

Nov 13, 2025 ET

DC Wings of Hope Reception

Nov 16, 2025 ET

San Francisco Miles for Melanoma 5K

Nov 22, 2025 PT

Saint John’s Cancer Institute Patient & Caregiver Symposium

Dec 06, 2025 ET

Tampa Bay Miles for Melanoma 5K

Dec 13, 2025 ET

Fort Myers Miles for Melanoma 5K

Feb 08, 2026 ET

Miami Miles for Melanoma 5K

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