The Marit Peterson Fund has surpassed its original goal of $500,000. To date, the fund has raised over $590,000. As a result, The Marit Peterson Fund has been critical in allowing the research team to leverage support from the National Cancer Institute’s SPORE Program (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) and the National Institute of Health’s CIDR Program (Center for Inherited Disease Research). This has lead to one incredible accomplishment, the creation of the single largest and highest quality melanoma study of its kind in the world!

From 2007 - 2009:
Marit's fund has enabled Dr. Lee's group to collect DNA samples from more than 2,000 melanoma patients. From these 2,000 patients, genetic testing has been completed on one million individual genetic variations across the entire genome.

2009 - Today:
Now, the huge job of analysis of these genes and their relationship to melanoma is being conducted! Dr. Lee will again update us on this cutting edge research on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at the 4th annual Marit Peterson Melanoma Research Golf Fundraiser. Please mark your calendars to attend this very special event. Thank you again for your continued generosity. The research advances would not be possible without your support.