MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION

100% of all donations are invested directly into melanoma research.

The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) is the largest private non-profit funder of melanoma research worldwide. Founded in 2007, MRA’s mission is to end suffering and death due to melanoma by advancing the world’s most promising science and research. MRA provides critical funding for melanoma research that propels advances in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, metastasis, and survivorship.

MRA brings together and connects a global brain trust in science and cancer research and provides them with the funding and flexibility to pursue their most innovative ideas enabling our funded-researchers to make discoveries and breakthroughs in record time.

MRA-funded researchers have been behind every major breakthrough in melanoma research. Since our inception, 19 new therapeutic treatments for melanoma have earned FDA approval. Today, patients have more treatment options than ever before and many are living longer, fuller lives as a result. The melanoma community is leading the way for oncology as a beacon of innovation and scientific excellence.

Despite this progress, it still isn’t enough, as half of patients facing advanced melanoma are still not benefiting from available treatments and with more than 100,000 new cases of melanoma that will be diagnosed in the United States this year, there is more critical work to be done.

Because MRA’s Founders, Debra and Leon Black, generously cover 100% of MRA’s administrative and operating costs, every dollar donated is invested directly into MRA’s scientific and research program.

MRA is hard at work unraveling some of the biggest unanswered questions facing melanoma patients today. Breakthroughs happen when we work together. Join us!