Australian of the Year 2024: pioneering melanoma researchers Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer named as winners

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The Sydney scientists are credited with saving thousands of lives with their work in skin cancer diagnosis and treatment

The pioneering melanoma researchers Prof Georgina Long and Prof Richard Scolyer have been named as the 2024 Australians of the Year.

Both from Sydney, the scientists are credited with saving the lives of thousands of Australians whose diagnoses of skin cancer would once have proven fatal but are now largely curable.

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