Donald L. Morton
Dr. Don Morton, an internationally renowned surgical oncologist, changed standards of care for patients with early stage melanoma. He was actively involved with MRA since the organization’s founding in 2007 and was a member of MRA’s Scientific Advisory Panel and a Team Science Award recipient. He was also a melanoma survivor.
His distinguished body of work includes fundamental discoveries that have profoundly changed the treatment of human cancer; his innovative studies of sentinel node mapping changed the standard of care for patients with early-stage malignant melanoma and other solid cancers that drain via the lymphatic system. Dr. Morton's scientific contributions toward the immunology of cancer and surgical oncology yielded more than 650 publications in peer-reviewed journals and garnered him a long series of prestigious awards and honors.
MRA deeply mourns the passing of this research pioneer. A full statement in memoriam can be found here.
