Pietro Berico’s Abstract Prolonged sun exposure combined with other multi-factorial cues can transform skin’s melanocytes into melanoma cells characterized by uncon...

Weili Ma’s Abstract When cancer cells metastasize to the brain, the diagnosis becomes terminal. In melanoma brain metastasis, patients are only given months to live. ...

Korbinian Kropp’s Abstract A major reason that T cell-based melanoma immunotherapies can fail, either initially or after a period of treatment, is due to mutations th...

Sarwish Rafiq’s Abstract Metastatic melanoma is one of the most aggressive, and complex cancers with a 35% 5-year survival rate. Therapies using T cells that are gene...

Prashanthi Dharanipragada’s Abstract For decades, cancer initiation and progression are thought to occur gradually through small mutational changes in its DNA. After ...

Vito Rebecca’s Abstract Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Although progress has been made for advanced melanoma patients with 13 new FDA-approved t...