Grant 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.
Diana Ashby Memorial Research Award
Andrew P. Kowalczyk
Assistant Professor at the Departments of Dermatology, Cell Biology and The Emory Skin Diseases Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, GA "Role of Cadherins in Melanoma Transmigration and Metastasis"
Other grants for patient support
Dorothea Becker
At the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, in support of a scientific meeting related to novel melanoma research that was held in June, 2000.
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