Acs Research - Theorylab

This conversation with Dan Erkes, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, was interesting because he talked, not only about the challenges and opportunities around drug resistance for melanoma, but also about how rewarding it is to conduct research in a community that's actively supporting him. 2:00 – On his research into the mechanisms of drug resistance for melanoma – “There are a lot of new drugs coming out that really help patients in a lot of different ways, but most patients are still developing diseases that the drugs don’t do anything to anymore. We’re trying to figure out either new ways we can treat those tumors or ways in which those cancers have become resistant to those drugs.” 3:22 – What it was like to find out he got funded “I got two really great things from the phone call. First off, I got feedback from scientific reviewers, which was really helpful for my growing as a scientist. But also, just to know that the grant was funded and to know that, now I have job stability,