At the 2017 Melanoma Research Alliance Scientific Retreat, Mike moderated a discussion with physician, scientist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD; NIH Surgery Branch Chief Steven Rosenberg MD, PhD; and Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, director of the Tumor Immunology Program at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. The conversation focused on understanding genes, their function and dysfunction, and how immunotherapies are offering more effective treatments for melanoma and other forms of cancer and disease.