{"id":632859,"date":"2026-04-26T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:33:08","slug":"georgina-long-and-rebecca-simpson-represented-melanoma-institute-australia-at-aacr2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632859\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgina Long and Rebecca Simpson Represented Melanoma Institute Australia at AACR2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgina Long, Translational Research and Medical Oncology at the University of Sydney, shared a post on\u00a0X\u00a0by\u00a0Melanoma Institute Australia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ProfGLongMIA\/status\/2048184557414072744?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">adding<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFabulous AACR2026 meeting, densely packed with science and research that will help us tackle the third space in cancer \u2013 those people who are still dying from it today.<\/p>\n<p>So pleased to present work in how we are tackling the third space at Melanoma Institute Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quoting\u00a0Melanoma Institute Australia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MelanomaAus\/status\/2047561059389640992?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week in San Diego, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held their Annual Meeting. The mission of AACR is to prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication and collaboration. Over 23,000 people attended in person and online.<\/p>\n<p> Prof Georgina Long AO attended in person and delivered a thought-provoking presentation about tackling the \u2018Third Space\u2019 \u2013 those resistant to current immunotherapies, how we can find effective treatments faster and identify these patients early.<\/p>\n<p> Dr Rebecca Simpson was also there to present two posters. There was great interest in her work on the influence of gut microbiome on neoadjuvant immunotherapy! \u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/pub\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HGpl7SXXQAAJ8Kb.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-492068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HGpl7SXXQAAJ8Kb-800x671.webp.webp\" alt=\"Georgina Long\" width=\"800\" height=\"671\" title=\"Georgina Long and Rebecca Simpson Represented Melanoma Institute Australia at AACR2026 2\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other articles featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/tag\/georgina-long\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgina Long<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/tag\/rebecca-simpson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Simpson<\/a> on OncoDaily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgina Long, Translational Research and Medical Oncology at the University of Sydney, shared a post on\u00a0X\u00a0by\u00a0Melanoma Institute Australia,\u00a0adding:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-632859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}