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Grant Award Recipients:
The Melanoma Research Foundation is proud to present a number of Research Grant Awards.
Junior Investigator Grant Awards are $50,000 per year for two years.
Starting in 2006 the Melanoma Research Foundation will begin awarding Senior Investigator Grants.
Senior Investigator Grant Awards are $100,000 per year for two years.

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Award Name: Award in Honor of Dermatology Interest Group Association and Miles for Melanoma Team Members
Recipient Full Name: Angela Hess
Project Name & Details: EphA2 as a Therapeutic Target for Malignana Melanoma
Award Name: The Susan Fazio Melanoma Research Foundation Award
Recipient Full Name: Arati Sharma
Project Name & Details: Developing Novel Compounds to Inhibit Akt3 Signaling in Melanoma
Award Name: Award in Memory of John Geltrude and Tricia Elaine Black by Teb's Troops
Recipient Full Name: Arati Sharma
Project Name & Details: Developing Novel Compounds to Inhibit Akt3 Signaling in Melanoma
Award Name: Award in Memory of Brian Anderson, Tom Butler, Dr. R. Scott Heath, George Madzia, Carl Osterlof, Bruce Schocken, Bob Whitman and George A. Wilkins
Recipient Full Name: Gregory Lesinski
Project Name & Details: The Role of Suppressors of Cytokine Signaling (SOCS) in Mediating the Anti-tumor Proprties of Interferon-alpha (IFN-a)
Award Name: Award in Memory of Kent McCullough
Recipient Full Name: Jonathan Lee
Project Name & Details: The Molecular Mechanism of Melanoma Sentinel Node Immunosuppression
Award Name: Award in Honor of 2007 Wings of Hope Recipients: Gregory & Jeanine Rush and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
Recipient Full Name: Kevin Brown
Project Name & Details: Population-based Whole Genome Association Study of Melanoma Risk Using DNA Pooling
Award Name: The Bill Walter III Melanoma Research Fund and Jeanie O'Malley D'Ambrose
Recipient Full Name: Victoria Crotzer
Project Name & Details: LAMP-2 Function in Cytoplasmic Antigen Presentation by Human Melanomas
Award Name: The Susan Fazio Melanoma Research Foundation Award
Recipient Full Name: Xiaowe Xu
Project Name & Details: The Role of Erythropoietin and Its Receptor in Melanoma Cell Survival in Vivo
Award Name: The Susan Fazio Melanoma Research Foundation Award
Recipient Full Name: Xiaowe Xu
Project Name & Details: The Role of Erythropoietin and Its Receptor in Melanoma Cell Survival in Vivo
Award Name: Award in Honor of Katie Brennan, Dr. Casey Culbertson
Recipient Full Name: Alexander Krupnick
Project Name & Details: Origin of Regulatory CD4-T Cells in Metastic Malignant Melanoma.
Award Name: Award in Honor of Katie Brennan, Dr. Casey Culbertson, Mr. & Mrs. Doug Eckrote, William Gelston, Keith Hennessey, Debbie Martel, Jennifer Mitchell and Jay & Barbie Otto
Recipient Full Name: Alexander Krupnick
Project Name & Details: Origin of Regulatory CD4-T Cells in Metastic Malignant Melanoma.
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Long Island Melanoma Symposium, May 10- REGISTER TODAY

Annual Melanoma Symposium - Irvine CA, Oct. 11

Educational Teleconference Audio Replay: Dr. Jeff Weber

Educational Teleconference: Melanoma 101 - Audio Replay

MRF Press Room

The relationship between combined positron emission tomography computed tomography and clinical and light microscopic findings in choroidal melanoma.

Vitiligo and melanoma-associated hypopigmentation (mah):shared and discriminative features

7th icatmm (international conference of adjuvant therapy on malignant melanoma) and 4th eado (european academy of dermatologic oncology) joint meeting

Interacting proteins key to melanoma development and treatment identified

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