Professor Georgina Long AO
BSc PhD MBBS FRACP FAHMS AAHMS FAA FASCO
Medical Director & Medical Oncologist
Professor Georgina Long AO, BSc (Hons1, UM) PhD MBBS (Hons) FRACP FAHMS AAHMS FAA FASCO, is Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA), and Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at MIA and Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney. She leads an extensive clinical trials team and laboratory at MIA, with a focus on immuno-oncology and targeted therapies in melanoma. She is principal investigator on phase I, II and III clinical trials in (neo)adjuvant and metastatic melanoma, including trials in patients with active brain metastases. She is the chief investigator on NHMRC funded research into the molecular biology of melanoma, with a particular interest in clinical and tissue biomarker correlates of systemic therapy sensitivity and resistance.
In recognition of her ground-breaking research and work, Professor Long was named 2024 Australian of the Year and was awarded prestigious Fellowships with the American Society for Clinical Oncology (2025), the Australian Academy of Science (2024) and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2017), the latter awarding her the Outstanding Female Research Medal (2021). Professor Long was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (2020) and has received numerous awards, including Fulbright U.S. Mission Australia Award for Leadership Excellence (2024), Estela Medrano Melanoma Award (2024), ESMO Women for Oncology Award (2023), Sydney Local Health District/Sydney Research 2022 Research Excellence Award (2022) the prestigious Ramaciotti Medal for Biomedical Research (2021), Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence Award for Outstanding Research (2021), University of Sydney (2021), Research Australia GSK Research Excellence Award (2018) and the Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize for Discovery in Medical Research (2016). She has a number of CINSW Premiers Awards, including: the Outstanding Cancer Researcher (2018), the Excellence in Translational Cancer Research Award (2017), the Wildfire Award for the most highly-cited, original, peer-reviewed article published (2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020), and in 2013 she was named the Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow. She is a Clarivate highly-cited Researcher from 2017, with an H index of 155.
Professor Long is the author of over 610 peer-reviewed publications in clinical and translational research in melanoma, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Oncology, Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Cancer Discovery. Professor Long has presented her work at international conferences and meetings on more than 300 occasions. She was President for the prestigious international Society for Melanoma Research (President 2018-2020), is a member and Chair of the ASCO (2015-2017) and ESMO (2017-2020 & 2026 – 2029) Scientific Committee for Melanoma/Skin cancer, is medical oncology lead for the Australian Melanoma Management Guidelines Committee, and is member of both the ASCO Plenary Series and ASCO AGM Education committees (2021-2024), Scientific Co-Chair for ESMO Asia (2024) and EADO (2026), she is on the editorial boards of several high-impact journals, and is a member of the Melanoma Expert Panel for AJCC Cancer Staging System 8th edition.
Professor Long was awarded the University Medal in Organic Chemistry. She subsequently completed her PhD in Chemistry in the field of anti-cancer agents and their binding to DNA. She then moved to the USA to take up a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at Scripps Research Institute, exploring nanotechnology in cancer treatment, before returning to Australia to complete her MBBS (Hons). Professor Long became a Fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians in January 2008, specialising in medical oncology.
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Ming Z, Lim SY, Stewart A, Pedersen B, Shklovskaya E, Menzies AM, Carlino MS, Kefford RF, Lee JH, Scolyer RA, Long GV, Rizos H. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, (Feb 01 2023), doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2023.01.017.
Weppler AM, Da Meda L, Pires da Silva I, Xu W, Grignani G, Menzies AM, Carlino MS, Long GV, Lo SN, Nordman I, Steer CB, Lyle M, Trojaniello C, Ascierto PA, Lebbe C, Sandhu S. European Journal of Cancer, (Jan 28 2023), doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2023.01.016
Long GV, Luke JJ, Fukunaga-Kalabis M, Ascierto PA. Lancet Oncol, 24, no. 1: e8, doi:10.1016/s1470-2045(22)00753-7. TOP 10%
Versluis JM, Menzies AM, Sikorska K, Rozeman EA, Saw RPM, van Houdt WJ, Eriksson H, Klop WMC, Ch’ng S, van Thienen JV, Mallo H, Gonzalez M, Torres Acosta A, Grijpink-Ongering LG, van der Wal A, Bruining A, van de Wiel BA, Scolyer RA, Haanen J, Schumacher TN, van Akkooi ACJ, Long GV, Blank CU. Ann Oncol, (Jan 18 2023), doi:10.1016/j.annonc.2023.01.004
Vellano CP, White MG, Andrews MC, Chelvanambi M, Witt RG, Daniele JR, Titus M, McQuade JL, Conforti F, Burton EM, Lastrapes MJ, Ologun G, Cogdill AP, Morad G, Prieto P, Lazar AJ, Chu Y, Han G, Khan MAW, Helmink B, Davies MA, Amaria RN, Kovacs JJ, Woodman SE, Patel S, Hwu P, Peoples M, Lee JE, Cooper ZA, Zhu H, Gao G, Banerjee H, Lau M, Gershenwald JE, Lucci A, Keung EZ, Ross MI, Pala L, Pagan E, Segura RL, Liu Q, Borthwick MS, Lau E, Yates MS, Westin SN, Wani K, Tetzlaff MT, Haydu LE, Mahendra M, Ma X, Logothetis C, Kulstad Z, Johnson S, Hudgens CW, Feng N, Federico L, Long GV, Futreal PA, Arur S, Tawbi HA, Moran AE, Wang L, Heffernan TP, Marszalek JR, Wargo JA. Nature, (Jan 10 2023), doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05632-x.
Vergara IA, Aivazian K, Carlino MS, Guminski AD, Maher NG, Shannon KF, Ch’ng S, Saw RPM, Long GV, Wilmott JS, Scolyer RA. Modern Pathology, (Jan 10 2023): 100099, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.modpat.2023.100099.
Wong SK, Blum SM, Sun X, Pires Da Silva I, Zubiri L, Ye F, Bai K, Zhang K, Ugurel S, Zimmer L, Livingstone E, Schadendorf D, Serra-Bellver P, Muñoz-Couselo E, Ortiz C, Lostes J, Huertas RM, Arance A, Pickering L, Long GV, Carlino MS, Buchbinder EI, Vázquez-Cortés L, Jara-Casas D, Márquez-Rodas I, González-Espinoza IR, Balko JM, Menzies AM, Sullivan RJ, Johnson DB. European Journal of Cancer, 2022, ISSN 0959-8049
Wilmott JS, Tawbi H, Engh JA, Amankulor NM, Shivalingam B, Banerjee H, Vergara IA, Lee H, Johansson PA, Ferguson PM, Saiag P, Robert C, Grob JJ, Butterfield LH, Scolyer RA, Kirkwood JM, Long GV, Davies MA. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Dec 7:CCR-22-2581. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-2581. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36477181.
Conway Jordan W., Braden Jorja, Wilmott James S., Scolyer Richard A., Long Georgina V., Pires da Silva Inês. Frontiers in Immunology, 2022. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1030147; DOI=10.3389/fimmu.2022.1030147, ISSN=1664-3224
J. Lee, T. Ahmed, A. Maurichi, L. Di Guardo, A.M. Stagno, L. Warburton, A. Taylor, E. Livingstone, S. Rehman, A. Khattak, K. Kahler, V. Vanella, V. Atkinson, M. Millward, D. Schadendorf, D.B. Johnson, P.A. Ascierto, A. Hauschild, S.N. Lo, G.V. Long, A.M. Menzies, M.S. Carlino. European Journal of Cancer, 2022, ISSN 0959-8049, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2022.11.009.
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