The Society for Melanoma Research
Advancement Through Collaboration
Advancement Through Collaboration
The Society for Melanoma Research’s principal goal is bringing together members who vary widely in their professions—from basic researchers to translational researchers to clinicians. Each shares an abiding devotion to improving the lives of those suffering from melanoma through research.
In coming years, with the incorporation of new technologies into experimental and clinical research, we expect rapid advances in cutaneous melanoma prevention, diagnosis and therapy. To bring new technology-based discoveries from bench to bedside and back, we will need to attain a far greater level of cooperation between labs and clinics. In addition, we expect to develop specific inhibitors for metastatic melanoma, rendering it in the next few years a treatable disease.
However, we face major challenges in securing funding, building infrastructure, and gaining expertise in new technologies. To meet these challenges, we will need to form multidisciplinary collaborations. SMR, through yearly congresses, workshops, and its website, will play the role of a catalyst.
The Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) is an all-volunteer group of scientists working to find the mechanisms responsible for melanoma and, consequently, new therapies for this cancer. SMR contributes to advances in melanoma research by bringing together researchers in a non-competitive way to unite the scientific community.
Melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is one of the fastest growing cancers in the U.S., and can strike people of all ages, all races and both sexes. Melanoma is the most common form of cancer for young adults 25 to 29-years-old and the second most common cancer in adolescents and young adults 15 to 29-years-old.