Press Coverage

New Gel Treatment Shows Promise For Skin Cancer — Forbes, August 2021

• A topical gel MEK inhibitor showed early promise in reducing cutaneous neurofibromas in patients with NF1.

Mobile app helps detect skin cancer in older patients — Stanford Medicine Scope Blog, July 2022

• A study found that a mobile app could help identify skin cancer in older patients with greater accuracy than reverse image search tools.

Skin tumors develop specific mutations to resist drug, researchers say — Stanford Medicine, March 2015

• Basal cell carcinomas develop mutations in the Hedgehog pathway to evade standard drug therapy, pointing to alternative treatment targets.

Mobile app helps detect skin cancer in older patients — Medical Xpress, July 2022

• Coverage of the same Stanford study on mobile app-assisted skin cancer detection in older adults.

How to use big data to treat and manage diseases — Dermatology Times, April 2017

• Dr. Sarin discusses how dermatologists can leverage big data to uncover new associations between medications and skin cancer risk.

New genetic variants found to influence skin cancer risk — 23andMe Blog, April 2017

• A large-scale study identified new genetic variants associated with basal cell carcinoma risk across diverse populations.

Reverse image search often yields wrong diagnosis for skin disease — Fox News, July 2016

• Dr. Sarin explains why Google's reverse image search is unreliable for diagnosing skin conditions and is no substitute for clinical expertise.

Big data presents opportunities — Stanford News, 2005

• Dr. Sarin describes how recording patient medication data at scale can reveal unexpected links to skin cancer risk.

PosseNext Fellows Program Scholar — Jeffrey Sagun
The Posse Foundation — 2026

SID Travel Award — Jeffrey Sagun
Society for Investigative Dermatology — 2026

Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr. Award for Excellence in Advising Medical Students — Kavita Sarin
Stanford University School of Medicine — 2024

Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society — Jeffrey Sagun
Sigma Xi — 2025

ACR Convergence Award: Choose Rheumatology Scholarship — Jeffrey Sagun
Rheumatology Research Foundation — 2025

Stanford REACH Oral Presentation Award — Jeffrey Sagun
Stanford University School of Medicine — 2025

Stanford REACH Postbaccalaureate Research Scholar — Jeffrey Sagun
Stanford University School of Medicine — 2024–2025

Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award — Kavita Sarin
Damon Runyon — 2019–2022

Department of Dermatology Letter of Teaching Distinction — Kavita Sarin
Stanford University — 2019–2020

K23 NCI Career Development Award — Kavita Sarin
National Institutes of Health — 2017–2022

Medical Dermatology Career Development Award — Kavita Sarin
Dermatology Foundation — 2014–2017