Jakob Jensen was first diagnosed with melanoma while working as a lifeguard at age 19. “Every summer, I burned ’til I peeled. I never wore sunscreen, and so I had pretty significant sun damage when I was younger,” he said. “My first reaction was, ‘What’s melanoma?’ I didn’t really have a concept of skin cancer.” That experience helped shape his career as a skin cancer researcher for Huntsman Cancer Institute, which proved even more valuable when he once again noticed a mole last summer.