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The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation’s innovation grants support high-risk, high reward ideas in cancer research.

The skin is more than an expression of your health and youthful good looks. It is your one and only barrier between the internal and external realms, keeping in the good things and barring the bad.

“We love the skin barrier but in a very physiologic and scientific way,” says Dr. Anthony Rossi, a dermatologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In addition to physically blocking the ...