On Mar. 13, 2019, Dr. Liang Lie of Mason Cancer Center’s Hormel Institute received a $100,000 two year research grant from the Prevent Cancer Foundation to focus on skin cancer prevention.

Skin cancer is by far the most common type of cancer, with numbers increasing each year. Dr. Liu’s research project planned to develop a test to help determine skin cancer risk for sunburn patients. With this research, Dr. Liu aimed to identify people at high risk of skin cancer, and provide more understanding of how to prevent and control cancer from progressing.