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Program Project Team

Marianne Berwick

Principal Investigator (contact PI)

Nancy Thomas

Multiple Principal Investigator

Projects and Cores

Project 1: Targeted Sequencing and Clinicopathology to Evaluate Primary Melanoma Subtypes and Outcomes

Leader

Marianne Berwick
University of New Mexico

Collaborators

Meg Gerstenblith and Cheryl Thompson
Case Western Reserve University

Jennifer Ko and Pauline Funchain
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Judy Rees and Shaofeng Yan
Dartmouth College

Jeffrey Lee and Shenying Fang
MDAnderson Cancer Center

Anne Cust, Graham Mann and Richard Scolyer
Sydney University-Melanoma Institute of Australia

Klaus Busam
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Eva Hernando
New York University

Nancy Thomas and David Ollila
University of North Carolina

Marcus Bosenberg
Yale University

Li Luo
University of New Mexico

Sheri Holmen
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah

Yvonne Saenger
Columbia University

Paul Bogner
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Eduardo Nagore
Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia (IVO), Spain

Other Contributors

Patricia Castro
Baylor College of Medicine

David Millan Esteban
Universidad Católica de Valencia & Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia (IVO), Spain

Project 2: Primary Melanoma DNA Methylation Profiling Evaluating Subtypes and Survival

Leader

Nancy Thomas
University of North Carolina

Collaborators

Sharon Edminston
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Kathleen Conway Dorsey
University of North Carolina

David Ollila
University of North Carolina

Nana Feinberg
University of North Carolina

Pei-Fen Kuan
Stonybrook University

Joel Parker
University of North Carolina

John Woosley
University of North Carolina

Project 3: Prognostic and Functional Role of a Gene Expression Signature in Melanoma Patients

Leader

Eva Hernando
New York University

Collaborators

Douglas Hanniford
New York University

Project 4: Multiplatform Analysis on Melanoma Molecular Subtypes and Patient Survival Outcome

Leader

Ronglai Shen
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Collaborators

Colin Begg
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Arshi Arora
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Other Contributors

Caroline Kostrzewa
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Allison Reiner
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Core 1: Administrative Core

Leaders

Marianne Berwick
University of New Mexico

Nancy Thomas
University of North Carolina

Collaborators

Tim Lee
British Columbia Cancer Research Center

Tawny Boyce
University of New Mexico

Matthew Schwartz
University of New Mexico

Core 2: Biosample Core

Leaders

Klaus Busam and Irene Orlow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Collaborators

Cecilia Lezcano
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Other Contributors

Jessica Kenney
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Kelli O’Connell
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Keimya Sadeghi
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Core 3: Bioinformatics Core

Leaders

Ivan Gorlov
Baylor College of Medicine

Collaborators

Chao Cheng
Baylor College of Medicine

Dakai Zhu
Baylor College of Medicine

Consultants and Advisors

Meenhard Herlyn
Wistar Institute

Marc Ernstoff (Federal Liason)
National Cancer Institute

Christopher Amos
Baylor College of Medicine

Paul Chapman
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Venkat Seshan
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Marcus Bosenberg
Yale University

Steve Belinsky
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

Stergios Moschos
University of North Carolina