Over the past week, graduate student Jared Almazan represented the Holmen Lab at the AACR Annual Meeting, where he shared his work testing RAF, MEK, and FAK inhibition across melanoma molecular subtypes. Thanks to all who stopped by and congrats to all the presenters!

She’s at it again! Undergraduate Savannah presented her poster on PTEN in melanoma at the University of Utah’s Office of Undergraduate Research symposium. She received an Honorary Mention for best in Wellness, Health, and Medicine. Congrats Savannah!

One of our undergraduate students, Savannah, presented her project on PTEN in melanoma at the 2025 Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research held at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, UT last week. Way to go, Savannah! 🥳

This Halloween, we successfully generated clones of Dr. Holmen! Can you spot the original? 👩‍🔬 Happy Halloween!

Grad students Jared Almazan and Karly Stanley presented posters on their thesis research and former undergrad/current lab tech MiKaela Field presented her work in collaboration with @GennieParkman and her undergrad Allison Stevens @SocietyMelanoma in NOLA this week!

Two weeks ago, our undergraduate students Clara, Lorelei, Paulina, and MiKaela presented their projects at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Long Beach, CA. Super proud of these 4 and their accomplishments!

Kicking off the new year with a pizza party and pictionary! Can you guess what Dr. Holmen was drawing? 🧐

Thanks to the organizers of #SMRCongress for a great week of melanoma research, and a wonderful award ceremony. Us @huntsmancancer researchers especially enjoyed the photo booth 😉 Congrats to all the awardees! #SMR2023

Dr. Gennie Parkman presented her work on genetic silencing of AKT to induce melanoma cell death at #SMRCongress this week. She is a former graduate student and post-doc of our lab, now with her own lab at Weber State University. We are so proud of her! #SMR2023 @GennieParkman

Congrats to graduate student Jared Almazan on his presentation of our most recent work treating melanoma brain metastasis with combined RAF/MEK/FAK inhibition. #SMR2023 #SMRCongress