Professors named as NSW’s Australians of the Year for life-saving works

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, November 2023

Professors Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer have been named NSW’s 2024 Australians of the Year, recognised for an “enduring partnership” that has saved thousands of people from dying from melanoma.

Whether the oncologist and pathologist, co-directors of Melanoma Institute Australia, can now prevent Scolyer from dying from brain cancer and improve the outcomes for others is unclear.

At a ceremony on Monday night at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the two doctors were recognised for their world-leading work that has turned a diagnosis of advanced melanoma from a death sentence into a curable disease for many.
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