
Professor Georgina Long AO (Bluesky @gvlongphdmd)
@profglongmia
Prof Translational Research & Medical Oncology @Sydney_Uni Medical Director @MelanomaAus 2024 Australian ofthe Year @AusoftheYear Fulbright Alum @FulbrightAUS
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It was a momentous time celebrating AusoftheYearAwards 2025 with my daughters (one watching proudly from the USA!), my rock of a husband, and my wise brilliant mum. As I welcome our inspiring new awardees, I reflect on an incredible 2024: pioneering melanoma research that transformed


Farewell to our amazing 2024 Melanoma Institute Australia fellows & welcome to fellows 2025. Our MIA fellowship program (Drs in medical oncology, surgery, dermatology, pathology) brings me so much joy. What a productive & successful bunch of people. Thank you to our medical oncology fellows 2024



Proud of this Australian study led Melanoma Institute Australia that changed practice overnight - now the 7 year overall survival in patients with #melanoma brain metastases. 51% alive at 7 yrs for upfront combination ipi+nivo & 29% for nivo mono therapy. University of Sydney Australian Academy of Science

So important to think of ways to combat poor public health messages on social media. We need to stop glamorising tanning - a tan is skin cells in trauma from UV and UV causes skin #cancer, including deadly #melanoma. Wonderful to meet #TarynBrumfitt Melanoma Institute Australia to strategise on


smh.com.au/national/can-t⊠University of Sydney Melanoma Institute Australia Australian Academy of Science Fulbright Australia AusoftheYearAwards Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences The Sydney Morning Herald Brindha Shivalingam Jim Whittle BrainCancerCentre WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) Peter Mac Cancer Centre Helen Rizos Macquarie University



I just had the exciting opportunity to speak at the RACSurgeons conference! My colleagues from Melanoma Institute Australia, Alex van Akkooi and David Coker, hosted the session where I shared groundbreaking work on #neoadjuvant #immunotherapy â giving cancer drugs before surgery, which is

