Georgina Long was the joint recipient of the National Australia Day Council's 2024 Australian of the Year Award.
12 Facts About Georgina Long
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Georgina Long had five siblings and grew up in Sydney's inner west.
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Georgina Long lived in Europe and America as a child.
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Georgina Long completed high school at Santa Sabina College in 1988.
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Georgina Long began studying a combined degree of science and law at the University of Sydney, but gave up law and graduated with a double major in pure maths and chemistry in 1993, before completing a PhD in organic chemistry, at Sydney University, in 1996.
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Georgina Long was a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Research Institute in California as a Fulbright Fellow, before returning to Australia to undertake her medical degree, graduating with an MBBS in 2001.
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Georgina Long has led numerous clinical trials, focusing on targeted therapies and immuno-oncology in melanoma.
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Georgina Long is the chief investigator on research into the molecular biology of melanoma.
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Georgina Long is co-director of the Melanoma Institute Australia with pathologist Richard Scolyer.
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Together they have been part of a team pioneering the use of immunotherapy treatment for melanoma, which Georgina Long then adapted for brain cancer when Scolyer was diagnosed with it in June 2023.
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Georgina Long was the first brain cancer patient in the world to have pre-surgery combination immunotherapy.
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In June 2024, Georgina Long was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.