Jason Koski/Cornell University Jeremy Baskin, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, in Weill Hall. Baskin's lab has identified a promising pathway to effective drug treatment of melanoma. Baskin lab identifies pathway for treating deadly melanomas March 5, 2021 Melanoma is the most aggressive and deadliest form of skin cancer. Effective treatments are elusive because one type of this cancer develops resistance to available inhibitors, and in another type, no effective drug treatment has yet been found. But a promising pathway to effective drug treatment of both types of melanoma has been identified by Cornell researchers in the signal regulating protein PLEKHA4, found in numerous animal tissues and organs, including the skin.