We identify emerging frontiers in clinical and basic research of melanocyte biology and its associated biomedical disciplines. We describe challenges and opportunities in clinical and basic research of normal and diseased melanocytes that impact current approaches to research in melanoma and the dermatological sciences. We focus on four themes: (1) clinical melanoma research, (2) basic melanoma research, (3) clinical dermatology, and (4) basic pigment cell research, with the goal of outlining current highlights, challenges, and frontiers associated with pigmentation and melanocyte biology. Significantly, this document encapsulates important advances in melanocyte and melanoma research including emerging frontiers in melanoma immunotherapy, medical and surgical oncology, dermatology, vitiligo, albinism, genomics and systems biology, epidemiology, pigment biophysics and chemistry, and evolution.
@article{arxiv.1808.01869,
title = {Frontiers in Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research},
author = {Fabian V. Filipp and Stanca Birlea and Marcus W. Bosenberg and Douglas Brash and Pamela B. Cassidy and Suzie Chen and John August D'Orazio and Mayumi Fujita and Boon-Kee Goh and Meenhard Herlyn and Arup K. Indra and Lionel Larue and Sancy A. Leachman and Caroline Le Poole and Feng Liu-Smith and Prashiela Manga and Lluis Montoliu and David A. Norris and Yiqun Shellman and Keiran S. M. Smalley and Richard A. Spritz and Richard A. Sturm and Susan M. Swetter and Tamara Terzian and Kazumasa Wakamatsu and Jeffrey S. Weber and Neil F. Box},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01869},
year = {2018}
}