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The Woiner Foundation of 51精品视频sburgh recently donated $50,000 to the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center鈥檚 Melanoma and Skin Cancer Treatment Program, directed by to support his internationally acclaimed melanoma research.
Under Kirkwood鈥檚 direction, more than 20 faculty researchers are leading multiple local, national and international studies that are advancing new therapies for the treatment of melanoma, a cancer that kills in the United States each year.
Kirkwood leads a number of highly promising clinical trials with cancer vaccines to spur the body鈥檚 own immune system into recognizing and destroying melanoma.