Nationally Regarded Melanoma Research Advocate and Founder, President of AIM at Melanoma, Val Guild, Dies

Source: PR.com, May 2020

San Rafael, CA, May 24, 2020 –(PR.com)– It is with profound sadness that AIM at Melanoma announces the death of its Founder and President, Valerie Guild, on May 21, 2020 from complications of ovarian cancer.

“Val was an inspiration and visionary leader, for our staff, the research community, and countless patients and families in the melanoma world,” said Alicia Rowell, Vice President of AIM. “She led AIM with intelligence, humor, integrity and passion. We deeply mourn this loss.”

When Valerie Guild lost her beloved 26-year-old daughter Charlie to melanoma in 2003, she vowed to help find the cure for the disease and founded The Charlie Guild Melanoma Foundation—which later became AIM at Melanoma—as the vehicle to do so. Under Val’s leadership, AIM at Melanoma has grown to be a global foundation that, in her own words, tackles the “hard stuff”—projects that are deemed critical for progressing research but also considered too difficult to accomplish.

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