Over the next three months, Prof Georgina Long will work with some of Europe's leading cancer research and treatment centres, advancing collaborative research in melanoma and neoadjuvant immunotherapy.
Read more about how the MIA team continues to play a leading role in advancing the frontiers of melanoma research, presenting new findings at major international oncology conferences - the AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego, the EADO Congress in Prague, and ASCO in Chicago.
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy continues to transform outcomes for people with melanoma and other cancers. Two recent papers show that assessing pathological response after neoadjuvant immunotherapy can be both more efficient and more consistent, without compromising accuracy.
Assoc Prof Inês da Silva, Medical Oncologist & Senior Researcher at MIA, was recently presented with the inaugural 'Marie Krogh Young Women in Science Prize' and the 'NSW Premier’s Awards Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher of the Year', in recognition of her groundbreaking contributions to melanoma treatment and care.
Leading Melanoma Institute Australia clinicians and researchers are in Europe to share latest research findings and clinical updates with international colleagues as we continue our efforts to reach zero deaths from melanoma.
Results of the RELATIVITY-098 clinical trial published in Nature Medicine show the presence of tumour is directly related to the effectiveness of combination immunotherapy for high risk and advanced melanoma, providing more evidence that neoadjuvant immunotherapy is the new frontier in treatment for melanoma, and other cancers.
MIA Medical Director, Professor Georgina Long AO, is leading the next group of clinical trials in the use of pre-surgery immunotherapy as life-saving treatment for melanoma. Results of one of these latest neoadjuvant immunotherapy clinical trials were today published in the prestigious Nature Medicine.
Researchers have reported results from an international clinical trial assessing alternative treatment options for lentigo maligna - a non-invasive condition that commonly occurs on sun-exposed areas, particularly the face.
The International Neoadjuvant Melanoma Consortium (INMC), of which MIA’s Professor Long is a founder with three colleagues from MD Anderson USA, has been awarded the 2025 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Collaboration Award for its work in pioneering neoadjuvant immunotherapy for melanoma.
Melanoma Institute Australia and Cancer Council Australia are conducting a review of the clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of melanoma. The second phase is now available for review, by clinicians and the community, until 29 August 2025.
