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Current Award and Grant Recipients

2009 Abby S. & Howard P. Milstein Innovation Award For Melanoma/Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Research
Lydia Chin, MD Lynda Chin, MD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Rational therapeutic strategy against braf mutant melanoma
2008 Abby S. & Howard P. Milstein Innovation Award For Melanoma/Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Research
Boris C. Bastian, MD Boris C. Bastian, MD
University of California, San Francisco
The KIT signaling pathway as a therapeutic target in melanoma
2010 Research Scholars
Rizwan Haq, MD, PhD Rizwan Haq, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Identification and characterization of genetic and chemical approaches to target microphthalmia-associated transcription factor in melanoma
Roger Lo, MD, PhD Roger Lo, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
A rational basis to augment v600E B-Raf therapeutic targeting in melanoma
Kenneth Y. Tsai, MD, PhD Kenneth Y. Tsai, MD, PhD
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Genetic and cellular determinants of immunosurveillance and immune evasion in skin cancer
2010 Research Grants
Joehyuk Choi, MD, PhD Joehyuk Choi, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
A forward genetic screen for tumor suppressor genes using transposon mutagenesis in mouse skin
Katherine B. Puttgen, MD Katherine B. Puttgen, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
The role of propranolol in the treatment of function threatening and disfiguring infantile hemangiomas
Durga Udayakumar, PhD Durga Udayakumar, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Elucidating the role of EphA2 in pigment cell biology
Jonathan Zippin, MD, PhD Jonathan Zippin, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York
Soluble adenylyl cyclase is necessary for IL-22-dependnent keratinocyte proliferation
2010 Quality of Life
Jean Y. Tang, MD, PhD Jean Y. Tang, MD, PhD
Stanford University, Redwood City
Association of vitamin D levels and basal cell carcinoma risk
2010 Medical Student Grants
Yevgeniya Dvorkin Yevgeniya Dvorkin
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Mechanisms of oncogenic transformation of normal melanocytes by ultraviolet radiation and bisphenol A
Mark Blaine Geyer Mark Blaine Geyer
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Evaluating the incidence, morbidity, mortality and nature of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in patients with recessive dystrophic epidermoloysis bullosa following allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Matthew Goldberg Matthew Goldberg
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Histone variation and new epigenetic markers of melanoma malignacy
Elana Shpall Elana Shpall
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland
UV-induced vitamin D3 production and the risk of basal cell carcinoma carcinogenesis
Whitney Tolpinrud Whitney Tolpinrud
Yale University Medical School, New Haven
Mechanistic elucidation of extracorporeal photochemotherapy, a treatment of cutaneous t cell lymphoma

Complete List of Research Grant & Award Recipients