Brendan Dillon from UBS and Jeff Rowbottom from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts hosted the first Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma benefit this week, after suffering from the disease themselves, raising $750,000 for the Melanoma Research Alliance.

The Melanoma Research Alliance was started by Leon Black, the famed founder of alternatives firm Apollo Global Management, and his wife Debra, and it has since become the largest private funder of melanoma research awarding $38m to 97 research programs.