University of Illinois Cancer Center member Michael Heiferman, MD, has received the Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) Career Development Award Grant.
The grant provides funding up to $50,000 per year for two years to junior investigators. Only researchers who are beginning a research career focused on melanoma are eligible. Heiferman is part of the Cancer Center’s Translational Oncology Research Program. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Associate Residency Program Director and Co-Director of the Vitreoretinal Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago.
Additionally, he practices in the Department of Ophthalmology at UI Health, where he cares for patients with vitreoretinal disorders and conditions related to tumors of the eye, including ocular melanoma, hemangiomas and cancers that have spread to the eye from other parts of the body.
The MRF helps to advance research across the spectrum of melanoma to develop and collaborate on a broad agenda for melanoma research.