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UCLA’s Roger Lo awarded $1 million to help prevent cancer relapse

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Roger Lo, a professor of medicine, dermatology and molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has received a $1 million “All-Star” grant from the V Foundation to develop strategies to prevent relapse in patients with advanced melanoma by targeting drug resistance before it takes root.

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