Roger Lo, professor of medicine, dermatology, and molecular and medical pharmacology and investigator at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded a $2 million grant from NIH to investigate innovative strategies to prevent drug resistance in melanoma treatment and improve the effectiveness of MAPK inhibitors, a common treatment for patients with melanomas that carry the BRAFV600 mutation.
NIH Director Monica M. Bertagnolli delivered the Charles G. Moertel Lecture at the Fall Group Meeting of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. The meeting took place Oct. 30-Nov. 1.
