BRAF and melanoma: In this study, we tested the hypothesis that combining the BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib, which recently has been approved for clinical use by the US Food and Drug Administration, with a novel AKT inhibitor tool compound GSK2141795B (AKTi), which is an analogue of the clinically tested AKT inhibitor GSK2141795, would have superior anti-tumor effects in BRAFV600 mutant melanoma cell lines compared to single agent dabrafenib.