The largest grant offered by the MRF, a Team Science Award, encourages collaboration across academic disciplines in an institution or among multiple institutions. Team Science Awards are required to address an unmet need or Special Topic area, as defined by the MRF’s Scientific Advisory Committee.

Applicants must have at least a position of Associate Professor and a demonstrated research track record. This award encourages proven researchers to continue research on emerging challenges in melanoma. Ideally, this award will generate data that can justify a much larger competitive grant.

This award enables young researchers to generate the groundwork that can leverage additional grant funding from other funding bodies. As such, recipients must be either postdoctoral fellows with less than five years of postdoctoral experience or a research associate, instructor, assistant professor, or the equivalent.

The goal of this award is to create findings that could then lend themselves to larger, multicenter grant proposals. Both tenured and non-tenured track faculty are encouraged to apply.

This grant is designed to fund clinical or laboratory melanoma research projects for resident/ fellows under the mentorship of a melanoma investigator.

The MRF is committed to introducing students early in their careers to the clinical or research opportunities under the mentorship of an investigator engaged in melanoma research.