Amanpreet Kaur, a student in the Cancer Biology Ph.D. program, a joint venture between Wistar and University of the Sciences, was recently awarded at $10,000 grant by the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation. Kaur, who studies in the laboratory of her mentor, Wistar Assistant Professor Ashani Weeraratna, Ph.D., will use the money to further her work on protein receptors that play an important role in melanoma progression and therapy resistance.