DONOR
RECOGNITION
A heartfelt thank you to all of our 2022 donors.
Your generosity makes our work possible:
curemelanoma.org/donate
$1,000,000+
Debra and Leon Black
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation
Denise and Michael Kellen Foundation
The Stewart J. Rahr Foundation
$500,000-$999,999
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Richard and Alison Ressler
$250,000-$499,999
Bank of America Private Bank
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Jonathan and Sheryl Sokoloff
$100,000-$249,999
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Lee and Debbi Alpert
Caryl Englander
Michael and Jacqueline Ferro Family
Foundation
Fitch Ratings
HPS Investment Partners, LLC
Iron Park Capital, LP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder
L’Oréal Active Cosmetics Division
Merck & Co., Inc.
Mike and Lori Milken
Polka Dot Mama Melanoma Foundation
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Robbins Family Fund of The Bessemer Trust
Jeffrey and Frances Rowbottom
Ian Schuman
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
The Wayne Stinchcomb Big Orange Foundation
Tara Miller Melanoma Foundation
Veritas Capital Management, Inc.
White & Case LLP
$50,000-$99,999
Allen & Overy
The Alta Vista Fund of the Chicago
Community Foundation
Amgen, Inc.
Anonymous
Apollo|MidCap
BioNTech AG
Bloomberg L.P.
BMO Capital Markets
Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber & Schreck
Barry and Joyce Cohen
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deloitte
Michael and Jacqueline Ferro
Iovance Biotherapeutics
Thomas Lee and Ann Tenenbaum
Nektar Therapeutics
Novartis Corporation
O’Melveny & Myers
Eyal & Marilyn Ofer Family Foundation
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
UBS Financial Services
Milken Global Conference panel discussion: “Trust Your Gut – Is the Microbiome the New Disruptor in Healthcare” (L to R): Marc Hurlbert, PhD – Melanoma Research Alliance, Amanda Eilian – MRA Board of Directors & Able Partners, Manuel Fankhauser, PhD – Searave Foundation, Jack A. Gilbert, PhD – University of California San Diego, Sandrine Miller-Montgomery, PharmD, PhD – Micronoma, and Chidozie Ugwumba – SymBiosis Capital Management
$25,000-$49,999
Agenus, Inc.
Alkermes, Inc.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Barclays
Brinley Partners LP
Castle Biosciences, Inc.
Checkmate Pharmaceuticals
Citi
The Gay Libertarian Fund
General Atlantic Philanthropic Foundation
Golub Capital
Hellman & Friedman LLC
Instil Bio
Intesa Sanpaolo
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Johnson & Johnson
King & Spalding
The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation
Leonard Green & Partners
Gregory and Sharon Maffei
Nancy and Howard Marks
Milbank LLP
MJR Foundation
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morgan Stanley
Natera
Network Financial Printing, Inc.
New Mountain Capital
Pfizer, Inc.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Mary Jo and Brian Rogers
Ropes & Gray LLP
Royal Bank of Canada/RBC Capital Markets
Matthew and Rijalda Savino
Adam Shapiro and Pam Wasserstein
Silver Lake
Sixth Street Partners
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
T. Rowe Price
TD Securities
The Brown Foundation Inc. of Houston
The Carlyle Group
Thoma Bravo
TPG|Tarrant Capital
Vista Equity Partners
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wells Fargo Bank
James and Vivian Zelter
$10,000-$24,999
M. Mark Albert
American Industrial Partners
Angelo Gordon & Co.
Anonymous
Ares Management LLC
Clare Bailhé
BC Partners LLP
Carole Black
Blackstone Credit
Blue Owl Capital
Ward Blum and Ronnie Heyman
BNP Paribas
Boat Racing LLC
Dale Bottoms and John Ciesielka
Debra Bottoms
Brian and Melissa Carney
Centerbridge Partners
Checkmate Pharmaceuticals
Alex Chi
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Ronald Cohen and Sharon Harel-Cohen
Combined Federal Campaign
Lee Grinberg and Jennifer Corwin
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Credit Suisse
The Hon. Ivo Daalder and Elisa Harris
Ellen and Gary Davis
Col. Wallace Dawson
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
DermTech International
Deutsche Bank
Brendan and Eva Dillon
Eisai Inc.
Elsevier Business Intelligence
Fortinbras Enterprises
Scot French
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Richard and Kathy Fuld
Gabriel Gelman
J. Littleton Glover
Kenneth Griffin
GTCR
Christopher Harland and Ashley Leeds
Hazen Polsky Foundation
H.I.G. Capital
HSBC Bank
Immunocore
Jefferies Financial Group
The Ketterer Family Foundation
KKR
Robert Kraft and Dana Blumberg
LSTA
David Ludwig
Macquarie Group
Madison Dearborn Partners
Matthew and Mary Catherine Manin
Christina Minnis
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.
Mizuho Securities USA, Inc.
MJX Asset Management LLC
Oak Hill Advisors, LP
Oak Hill Capital Management
Eyal and Marilyn Ofer
Jonathan Ofer
Gregory Olafson
Pantheon Ventures (US) LP
PRIME Education
Robert Pulford
Harley and Bob Raiff
Regeneron
The Reiss Family Foundation
Mark Rubenstein
Elliott and Ruth Sigal
Silver Rock Financial
SPOTMYUV
Kevin Sterling
Stone Canyon Industries
Stone Point Capital
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Tiger Global Management
Trobman Family Charitable Trust
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Warburg Pincus LLC
Brad Wechsler and Patty Newburger
Erika Weinberg and Matt Nord
Winston & Strawn
Lois Robbins — Founder of WATSKIN and Marc Hurlbert, PhD — MRA Chief Executive Officer
$5,000-$9,999
Advent International Corporation
Angelo Gordon & Co.
Anonymous
Ardea Cares
Breanna and Cassidy Battin
Arie and Rebecka Belldegrun
BlackRock
James Bonetti
Brody Family Foundation
Brookfield
Norm and Sunny Brownstein
Capital One Bank
Clarion Capital Partners, LLC
Israel Englander
Michael and Sarah Fenstermacher
Foundation Medicine, Inc.
Gem Star Foundation
GigaGen, Inc.
GoldenTree Asset Management
Lauren Hanrahan
Stratton and Rhonda Heath
William Helman
Holland & Knight
Houlihan Lokey, Inc.
Carl and Gail Icahn
Elizabeth L. Johnson Fund
Michael Lee
David L. Lieb Foundation
Irina Liner and Marcel van Poecke
Meeting Masters, Inc.
Suzy, Nancy and Carol Minkoff Charitable Fund
Mollie Biggane Melanoma Foundation
Natixis
NeraCare
Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc.
Gregory Olafson
OFS Capital Management
Paul Hastings LLP
PNC Bank
Malcolm Price and Catherine Kuehn Price
Radimmune Therapeutics, Inc.
Riverstone LLC
Rothschild & Co.
Sir Paul Ruddock and Lady Jill Shaw Ruddock
Secura Bio, Inc.
Seix Investment Advisors LLC
Shenkman Capital Management, Inc.
Siris Capital Group, LLC
James Skelton
Sony Music Entertainment
Beatrice Stern
Stonepeak
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Stephanie Teicher
Todd Goodwin Charitable Trust
Z Capital Group
$1,000-$4,999
The 77 Foundation, Inc.
Christopher Abbate
Dina Acciai and Frank Basile
Andrew Adams
Jeffrey Aleshire
Joanne Ally
Amazon
Anonymous
Apple
Rome and Lisa Arnold
James Austin
Shant Babikian
Brandon and Lida Barniea
Margaret Betzel
Andrew Black
Thomas Bolas
Jamie Brodsky
Vanessa Brown
Kellie Burdick
John and Wendy Burnett
Terri Butler
Todd Carriker
CBRE Group, Inc.
Alan Cheng
Brady Cherneski
Jay and Gretchen Clayton
Maurice and Gayle Cohen
Linda Conely
James Connolly
Conscious Alliance
Scott Cullerton
Jerold Danis
Jennifer Davidson
Brian and Yvonne Day
The Geaton & Joann Decesaris Family
Foundation Inc.
Kerry Dolan and Alexander Byers
Max Dow
Craig and Janet Duchossois
Kelly Dybala
Paula Ehrlich
Jacob Elhganayan
Dimitri Evanoff
Susan and Peter Evensen
John Eydenberg
Erik Fiebert
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Craig Fitt
Margaret Flynn
Angela Fontana
Shelley Franco
Thomas Freyman
Rondi and David Frieder
Mrs. Ruth Friedman and Mrs. Beth Ann
Hopkins Fund
Robert Fullerton
James Gardner
Alison Gibraski
Greg Gliner
Mark Goldman
Goldman Sachs Gives
Great Salt Plains Health Center, Inc.
Jeffrey Greenip
JP and Lauren Gutfreund
Cristina Haegg
Cynthia Hartung
Todd and Jamie Hasson
Linda Hinds
Gerry Hogue
Patrick Hunt
Marc Hurlbert
Victor A. Hurlbert
Brett Icahn
Dennis and Betty Jacobson
Karen Karmolinski
Brad and Roberta Karp
Elizabeth Kelly
William and Carrie Kelly
Kelly Kendall
Joseph Kieffer
Darren Kikuta
Peter Krause, Jr.
Rebecca Lainovic
Ann Lamont
Steve Lane
Richard LaRochelle
Josh Lederman
Laura and Barry Levine
Justin Levy
Harriet Libstag
D. Scott and Michele Lindsay
Raymond Macumber
Peter and Laurie Maglathlin
Carl Mayer
Elizabeth McCrickard
Eliza McDougall
Christopher McFadden
Matt and Ashley McMahon
The Melanoma Millennium Challenge
Deborah Merten
Andrew Messinger and Karen Sokoloff
Carolyn Michas
Gregory Milken
Lance and Hillary Milken Foundation
Anne Mixen
Tiffany Moller
George Mueller
Erin Murphy
Ryan Murphy
Eugene Murtha
Ankit Nagori
Anandhi Narasimhan
Mick and Janella Neverman
Elizabeth Noble
Stephen Norair
Gregory Ostrowski
Christina Park
Leigh Perkins
Michal Petrzela
Pinpoint Patient Recruiting
Leslie Plaskon
Pledgeling Foundation
Kevin Pluff
Derrick Queen
Gregory Quinn
Jonathan and Lauren Rabinowitz
Boris and Jennifer Rapoport
Benjamin Rattner
Hans Reuter
Roseman Family Donor Advised Fund
Gregory Ruben
Steven Rutkovsky and Melissa Robbins
Stelios Saffos
Alexandra Sassoon
John Schempf
M. Curran Schiefelbein
Wayne and Mary Schiefelbein
Elizabeth Schreiber
Schwab Charitable
Nicholas Schwartz
Leonard and Phyllis Seevers
Patricia Shanks
Maureen Sherry-Klinsky
Jonathan and Plum Simons
Michael Sitter
Kristen Smith
James Snyder
Christopher Solomon
Chris Sommer
Debora and James Staley
John Sullivan III
John and Junie Sullivan
Margaret Sung and Michael Schmidtberger
Elizabeth Tabas
Amanda Taitz
Edward Tam and Tara Hart
Rachel Teslenko
Cade Thompson
Joshua Thompson
Benton Tolley
U.S. Bank Foundation
Viking Global Investors LP
James Walsh
Claude Wasserstein
Lisa Watts
Carleda Williams
Kelly Wohltman
Brian Wolfe
Brian and Salley Wood
Brian Wortman
2023 LFFM Co-Chairs: (Back Row Left to Right): Lee Grinberg – Elliott Management, George Mueller – KKR, Kevin Pluff – HPS Investment Partners, Marc Hurlbert, PhD – Melanoma Research Alliance, Clare Bailhé – MidCap Financial, Ian Schuman – MRA Board of Directors & Latham & Watkins, Eric Wedel – Kirkland & Ellis, Kerry Dolan – Brinley Partners, and Matt Manin – Apollo. (Front Row Left to Right): Geoff Oltmans – Silver Lake, Trevor Watt – Hellman & Friedman, Jeff Rowbottom – MRA Board of Directors & General Atlantic Credit, and Cade Thompson – KKR. Not pictured: Brendan Dillon – Veritas Capital and Erwin Mock – Thoma Bravo.
Bill Evans — Melanoma Patient Advocate
Rachel Fischer, PhD — MRA Associate Director, Scientific Program & Registry
Mara Eva Cline, Miss GA Teen 2021 titleholder, presents check to MRA
Laurence Zitvogel, PhD – Gustav Roussy (France)
Ellen Davis – MRA Board of Directors and Lee Grinberg –
LFFM Co Chair
Tanisha Jackson, PhD – MRA Scientific Program Director