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Learn more about our new #GetNaked spokesperson Raheem Mostert and our Melanoma Awareness Month Campaign Research Congrats to our Pilot Award Grant Recipients! Learn more about our grant recipients and their research! MRF Events GALAS MRF Events Save the Date! Save the Date for our upcoming celebrations of the melanoma community in Denver and New York City! News & Press FDA Announcement News & Press FDA Announces Approval of TIL Therapy or AMTAGVI Learn more about TIL Cell Therapy through our animated patient video! Education Education NEW Cutaneous Melanoma Patient Guide Stages 0-1 Check out the new guide for patients who were diagnosed with cutaneous melanoma stage 0-1! Join a Miles for Melanoma 5k Miles for Melanoma Miles for Melanoma Join a Miles for Melanoma 5k! Join melanoma patients, survivors, caregivers and supporters in cities across the US to walk, run and raise life-saving funds for melanoma research. Find a run/walk near you and register your team today! Join Us In Our Mission To Cure Melanoma The MRF’s mission is to eradicate melanoma by accelerating medical RESEARCH while EDUCATING to and ADVOCATING for the melanoma community. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Melanoma claims the lives of over 8,290 Americans every year. Melanoma is the leading cause of cancer death in young women ages 25 – 30 and the second leading cause of cancer death in women ages 30-35. Learn more about melanoma 9 out of 10 cases are considered to be preventable. Funding Melanoma Research Funding from The MRF has resulted in: 25 Clinical trials 120 Grants with new collaborations 261 Publications 539 Presentations Learn more about research Recently Funded Research Ze’ev Ronai (Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Ze’ev Ronai (Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Inaki Etxeberria (MSKCC) Immunogenic landscape and therapeutic targeting of NRAS public Neoantigens Joshua Veatch (Fred Hutchinson) Targeting melanoma with engineered CD4+ T cells Pere Puigserver (DFCI) NKT infiltration and rejection in melanomas cells and the possibility to engineer these cells for melanoma treatment. Kari Kendra (The Ohio State University) TGFßi NK Cell Infusions in Patients with Melanoma Brain Metastases Poulikos Poulikakos Targeting an adaptor function of CDK6 to enhance melanoma immunotherapy Lilit Karapetyan (Moffitt) Deciphering the role of APRIL/TNFSF13 in melanoma-associated TLS formation Xiaonan Xu (Moffitt) Understand metastasis of uveal melanoma in vivo via novel mouse models Click Here to View All Funded Research Miles for Melanoma DC May 6, 2023 Kick off the 2023 Miles for Melanoma season with our first run/walk at Yards Park in Washington, DC. Registration is now open – sign up today! Upcoming Events Miles for Melanoma Washington Yards Park May 11, 2024 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Patient and Caregiver Symposium May 18, 2024 University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Patient and Caregiver Symposium May 20, 2024 Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center of Georgetown University Patient and Caregiver Symposium June 8, 2024 Miles for Melanoma Denver Sloan Lake Park June 8, 2024 View All Events Latest News Shelley Belanger’s Journey with Mucosal Melanoma My name is Shelley, a 59-year-old resident of Ontario, Canada, where I live with my loving spouse and our cherished Katie Doble’s Journey with Ocular Melanoma TIL therapy has given my family and me next-level hope. At 31 years old, I received my first cancer diagnosis—primary Melanoma Awareness Month – Jessica Strange Guest blog from Jessica Strange, Melanoma survivor who was first diagnosed in 2021: I was first diagnosed with Melanoma on Brandi Corbello Shares Her Story During Melanoma Awareness Month: Cancer Didn’t Stop Me, It Empowered Me” Guest blog post by Brandi Corbello; melanoma thriver, advocate, MRF supporter and founder of Melan: In 2019, I received a VIEW ALL NEWS Optimize Your Treatment Although the MRF cannot recommend a specific doctor, clinic or clinical trial, the Melanoma Treatment Center Finder and Clinical Trial Finder will help you find an experienced melanoma treatment team, as well as give you the opportunity to explore clinical trials. Did you know that clinical trials are often viewed as the best treatment option for Stage II, III and IV melanoma patients? 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