Young Investigator Awardees
The MRA Young Investigator Awards empower the next generation of early career researchers. In addition to funding bold new ideas, MRA’s Young Investigator Award program is also a training ground for researchers through the interaction with a senior melanoma investigator serving as a mentor as they prepare for the future of their science careers.
Delineating T-cell migratory patterns in
immunotherapy-treated melanoma
Ressler-MRA Young Investigator Award
Katie Campbell, PhD, The Regents of the University of
California, Los Angeles
The role of aging in immune-regulated reactivation from metastatic melanoma
Merck-MRA Young Investigator Award
Mitchell Fane, PhD, The Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center
Elucidating metabolic modulators to enhance Treg-TME melanoma immunotherapy
Jill & Jay Bernstein-MRA Young Investigator Award
Ariella Glasner, PhD, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint blockade therapy with PSGL-1
Bristol Myers Squibb-MRA Young Investigator Award
Jennifer Hope, PhD, Drexel University
Spatial vascular patterns and immune exclusion mechanisms in melanoma
Wayne Stinchcomb Big Orange Foundation-MRA Young
Investigator Award
Minah Kim, PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Targeting suppressive macrophages to overcome resistance to immunotherapy
The Pelletier Family Foundation – MRA Young Investigator Award
Brian Miller, MD, PhD, The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Harnessing tissue-resident lymphocytes as a melanoma biomarker
LFFM Michael Milken Young Investigator Award
Joshua Moreau, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University –
OHSU
L to R: Nico Starink – MRA, Heman Bekele – TIME’s 2024 Kid of the Year, and
Vito Rebecca, PhD – Johns Hopkins Medicine
Tumor-reactive T cells to treat melanoma leptomeningeal disease
Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma (LFFM)-MRA Young
Investigator Award
Yolanda Pina, MD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research
Institute, Inc
Harnessing the tumor immune microenvironment of brain metastases
ASTRO-MRA Young Investigator Award in Radiation Oncology
Lisa Sudmeier, MD, PhD, Emory University
Targeting BRAF mutated melanoma with CD4+ T
cells
Kline Hill – MRA Young Investigator Award
Joshua Veatch, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center