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.
Award in Memory of Brian Anderson, Dr. R. Scott He
Pamela Pollock
Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona "Investigation of FGFR2 as a Novel Oncogene in Melanoma"
Award in Memory of Thomas W. Barner, Michael Benso
Mikhail Nikiforov
University of Michigan “Small Molecule Antagonists of Oncoprotein Myc as Inhibitors of Malignant Melanoma”
Award in Memory of Thomas E. Coveny, Jack Maroulis
James E. Bear
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill "The Role of Coactosin in Melanoma Motility and Metastasis"
Award in Memory of Don Aronow, Cathleen Roe Eagan,
Antoni Ribas
University of California Los Angeles "Mechanisms of Immune System-mediated Tumor Regressions in Patients with Melanoma"
Award in Honor of Allured Publishing, Steve Czaban
Mary Jo Turk
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire "Generating and Maintaining Post-Excisional Immunity against Poorly-Immunogenic Melanoma"
