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Meeting abstracts

SID 2026

Society for Investigative Dermatology · Chicago, 13–16 May 2026

1,214 abstracts, published in JID on 21 July 2026. Their text is on the JID website.

  1. 0122

    Prediction of conjunctival melanoma on whole slide images: A novel application of a weakly supervised deep learning melanoma detection MIL model

    Ghandian S, Tada M, … senior author Wei M

  2. 0176

    Leveraging the integrated behavior model to strengthen melanoma prevention efforts in skin-aware professionals

    Slobodow J, Zhao HM, … senior author Leachman S

  3. 0191

    Interviews exploring American dermatologists’ perspectives on AI-driven clinical decision support (CDS) tools for melanoma detection

    Kim SS, Kurtansky N, … senior author Rotemberg V

  4. 0202

    Radiological characterization of advanced non-melanoma skin cancer in a safety-net hospital system

    Fike H, Gill S, … senior author Gridley D

  5. 0227

    Total nevus count estimation: Comparable assessments by dermatologists and a total-body photography-based algorithm

    Pathmarajah P, Longo SK, … senior author Chiou A

  6. 0263

    Altitude and melanoma risk

    Kim Y, Lin M, … senior author Asgari MM

  7. 0292

    Prevalence and associations of pathogenic gene variants in a Midwestern US military veteran cohort with cutaneous melanoma

    Hansen J, Fitzhugh M, … senior author Powers J

  8. 0306

    Early survival benefit of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination during immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in cutaneous melanoma & squamous cell carcinoma

    Mendez D, Hill MA, … senior author Arbesman J

  9. 0324

    Contemporary trends in sentinel lymph node biopsy for T1 melanoma: A national cohort study

    Simons RA, Farooq MS, … senior author Karakousis GC

  10. 0343

    Geographic access and melanoma stage at diagnosis in Greece

    Tsao HJ, Niforou K, … senior author Stratigos AJ

  11. 0349

    Prognostic significance of melanoma-specific AR-signature in melanoma patient survival

    Mummareddy H, Patel T, Liu-Smith F

  12. 0372

    Association of state window tinting regulations with cutaneous melanoma laterality

    Reynolds C, Fay A, … senior author Rundle C

  13. 0440

    The costs of classifying spitzoid neoplasms with molecular testing

    Anderson A, Presley C, Miller D

  14. 0547

    Oral chemoprevention of non-melanoma skin cancer in organ transplant recipients: A systematic review

    Zhu N, Chang J, … senior author Rajpara A

  15. 0607

    STIM1 as a novel cause of inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus

    Luo AJ, Jiang X, … senior author Choate K

  16. 0617

    Sequential intratumoral nanoparticle gene delivery of IL-12 and IL-2 with 4-1BBL improves melanoma survival

    Kollings J, Luly KM, … senior author Sunshine J

  17. 0624

    A literature review of the correlation between faun tail nevus presentation and spinal dysmorphisms

    Hilmi F

  18. 0645

    Clinical and genetic correlates of nevus-associated melanoma

    Ribaudo I, Salem A, … senior author Arbesman J

  19. 0705

    Analysis of racial and ethnic enrollment in acral lentiginous melanoma clinical trials

    Simmonds F, Prada D, Perez-Lorenzo R

  20. 0708

    Examining racial and ethnic disparities within melanoma clinical trials that led to FDA approvals

    Kong R, Xiang B, Nguyen R

  21. 0718

    Age-dependent racial disparities in late-stage melanoma at diagnosis

    Iqbal F, Iqbal A, … senior author Ifteqar S

  22. 0722

    Melanoma risk and outcomes in racial minorities with diabetes: A claims analysis

    Alvarez GV, Liao K, Wehner MR

  23. 0754

    Melanoma clinical trials across the USA: A cross-sectional analysis of site distribution and disease burden

    Petrossian L, Margossian C, … senior author Sarkissian S

  24. 0762

    Mucosal melanoma and its metastatic burden in the south asian population: A systematic review

    Dutt A, Jeyakumar J, … senior author Krishnamurthy K

  25. 0800

    Intrinsic anti-tumorigenic properties of the skin epithelium mediate cancer resistance in naked mole-rats

    Fatima I, Mardaryev A, … senior author Botchkarev VA

  26. 0802

    Pigmented poroma–seborrheic keratosis collision tumor mimicking melanoma on reflectance confocal microscopy

    Rodriguez MT, Aslam R, … senior author Farabi B

  27. 0824

    Sensory neuron-pericyte-tumor axis promotes melanoma progression

    Sur D, Lee T, … senior author Birbrair A

  28. 0825

    Genetic characterization of patient-derived xenograft models for rare melanoma subtypes

    Aoki KV, Smith EA, … senior author Judson-Torres R

  29. 0826

    Advances in acral melanoma cell culture: Growing the unculturable

    Johnson S, Prokofyeva A, … senior author Smith EA

  30. 0827

    KIT driver mutations and durability of response to immune checkpoint inhibition in KIT-mutant melanoma

    Karagenova R, Kaveti A, … senior author Tsao H

  31. 0828

    Primary vulvar mucosal melanoma in a patient with Li-Fraumeni syndrome: A rare case report

    Chandrasekaran A, Baltazar D, Moser J

  32. 0829

    Interpretable machine learning to predict distant metastasis at initial melanoma diagnosis

    Kim J, Yuan H, … senior author Avanaki K

  33. 0832

    The potential tumor promoter function of SIRT4 in human melanoma

    Islam S, Chhabra G, … senior author Ahmad N

  34. 0833

    Social determinants of seeking care for the initial diagnosis of melanoma

    Patel AK, Swearingen A, … senior author Polsky D

  35. 0834

    Therapy-induced AR–B7-H3 axis drives immune exclusion and adaptive resistance in melanoma

    Lasalle C, Amber KT, Mansini A

  36. 0835

    Role of ALKBH1 in melanoma pathogenesis

    Verghese M, Wilkinson E, … senior author He Y

  37. 0837

    Crimes against keratinocytes: Melanoma cells hijack the UV response

    Pokorny J, Ren Z, … senior author Green K

  38. 0839

    Identifying UV repair defects and genomic instability in patients with 10+ multiple primary melanomas

    Jiang AZ, Fastner S, … senior author Deacon DC

  39. 0841

    Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic analysis of melanocyte heterogeneity in human nevi

    Wang R, Zeng W, Hongguang L

  40. 0842

    Desmoglein 1 loss promotes tumor-permissive environment in HGF/SF mouse model of melanoma

    Gao F, Pokorny J, … senior author Green K

  41. 0844

    UVB-induced senescent fibroblasts drive immune suppression in cutaneous melanoma

    Khayatan D, Kim AL, Perez-Lorenzo R

  42. 0845

    Association of pre-treatment skeletal muscle mass with recurrence and severe immune-related adverse events in melanoma patients receiving adjuvant anti–PD-1 therapy

    Yamakawa K, Kurita Y, … senior author Yamaguchi Y

  43. 0848

    Activated keratinocytes define a distinct transcriptional microenvironment in melanoma

    Soghomonian A, Love N, … senior author Kiuru M

  44. 0850

    Recurrent transcriptional cell states of benign nevi identified by single-cell transcriptomics in fixed tissue

    Campbell NR, Olivares S, … senior author Goyal Y

  45. 0851

    A skin-targeted autologous immunotherapy strategy to enhance melanoma immunosurveillance

    Zhang Y, Feizi N, … senior author Falo LD

  46. 0852

    Biomarkers of lentigo maligna melanoma invasion

    Hu M, Jiang AZ, … senior author Deacon DC

  47. 0853

    Distinct HRAS point mutations drive eruptive spitz nevi

    Jiang AZ, Aoki KV, … senior author Deacon DC

  48. 0855

    Circumferential invasive melanoma of the forearm without systemic disease

    Skalka N, Walls B

  49. 0856

    Pregnancy does not increase melanoma risk but modestly improves survival in a large real-world cohort

    Newell D, Nowacki A, … senior author Arbesman J

  50. 0858

    Targeting PRMT5 to modulate endogenous retroviruses expression in melanoma

    Milette S, Roy S, … senior author Micevic G