Young Investigator Awards
Harnessing the immunomodulatory effects of NK cells in melanoma
Bristol Myers Squibb — MRA Young Investigator Award
Kevin Barry PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Dissecting the dynamic immune ecosystem during melanoma evolution
Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma — MRA Young Investigator
Award
Diego Chowell PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Vaccine-tunable TME-restricted CAR T therapy for long-term melanoma control
Bristol Myers Squibb — MRA Young Investigator Award
Leyuan Ma PhD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Dissecting melanoma brain metastasis and response to immunotherapy
MRA Young Investigator Award
Eva Perez-Guijarro PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Catabolic plasticity in acral melanoma metastases and drug tolerance
The Black Family — MRA Young Investigator Award
Vito Rebecca PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Bioengineering approaches for advancing targeted-immunotherapy in melanoma
MRA Young Investigator Award
Tanmoy Saha PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Multi-modal machine learning for early-stage melanoma recurrence prediction
L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty — MRA Young Investigator Award
Yevgeniy Semenov MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Image-based three-dimensional radiation dosimetry for Ac-225-MTI-201
ASTRO — MRA Young Investigator Award
Chris Tichacek PhD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Marisol Soengas, PhD – Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Spain) and
Ze’ev Ronai, PhD – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Resolving the spatial clonal architecture of acral lentiginous melanoma
L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty — MRA Young Investigator Award
Meng Wang PhD, The University of California, San Francisco
Monitoring early response to immunotherapy with ultrasensitive plasma WGS
The Black Family — MRA Young Investigator Award
Adam Widman MD, Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Tumor immune evasion through STING-mediated T cell death in melanoma
MRA Young Investigator Award
Jianjun Wu PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation