Cristina Puig-Saus, PhD, and Daniel S. Shin, MD, PhD, of UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center received a $1 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense for research into novel cell therapies for rare melanomas. The Translational Research Award is intended to help the researchers advance the development of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for patients with acral, mucosal or uveal melanomas. These rare …