International Melanoma Congress

2009

The MRF began a partnership with the Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) to convene the 6th International Melanoma Congress.  The annual congress is an open public meeting that provides an opportunity for investigators, clinicians and students to share their research results with an international, multidisciplinary audience and look for areas to collaborate.  A meeting report, "Melanoma from Bench to Bedside", was published in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, the official journal of the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies and the Society for Melanoma Research

2010

The Melanoma Research Foundation was a proud participant in the 2010 7^th International Melanoma Congress held in Sydney, Australia. Representing the MRF were Randy Lomax, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Executive Director Tim Turnham. In addition, several members of the MRF Scientific Advisory Committee were in attendance and presenters at the meeting. The Congress encompassed four sub-meetings designed to cross-fertilize multiple scientific disciplines: 

• 7th International Melanoma Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research
• 4th Meeting of Interdisciplinary Melanoma/Skin Cancer Centers
• 3rd Symposium of the International Melanoma Pathology Working Group
• Melanoma Update for Primary Care Physicians

In all, 950 delegates attended with 31 countries represented.  Topics included Targeted Therapies, Melanoma Stem Cells, Cell Growth Regulation, Melanoma Tumor Biology, Animal Models and Melanoma Gene Discovery. 

To read the published meeting report in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, please use the following link:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00811.x/abstract