Sentinel Node Congress

Received the Young Investigators Award International at the Sentinel Node COngress in Yokohama, Japan in 2002.

The Pathologist Journal

The Pathologist’s 2020 Power List within the “Big Breakthroughts” category, which celebrates trailblazers working at the cutting edge and driving forward the future of the field. Link: https://thepathologist.com/power-list/2020

The University of Sydney

Clarivate Web of Science Group

Clarivate Web of Science Group “Highly Cited Researcher 2019” in recognition of exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% for field and year in Cross-Field. Issued 19 November 2019

The American Society of Dermatopathology

The American Society of Dermatopathology presented RA Scolyer for his Elson B. Helwig Memorial Lecture an award in “recognition of excellence in the realm of diagnostic dermatopathology and for significant contribution to the dermatopathology literature and the education of fellows and colleagues”. Awarded at the ASDP 56th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California on 18 October 2019

The Pathologist’s 2019

The Pathologist’s 2019 “Trailblazers” Power List – a power list of top 100 Pathologists worldwide with RS listed in top 10 and the only Australian in the top 100

ExpertScape DailyExperts

ExpertScape DailyExperts – 29/5/2019: Richard Scolyer recognised as an Expertscape World Expert in Melanoma (top 0.1%).

New South Wales Premier's Office, Australian Government

2018 NSW Premier's ‘Professor Rob Sutherland AO Make a Difference Award” awarded to RA Scolyer

Research Australia

Research Australia’s 2018 GSK Award for Research Excellence Co-Awarded Professor Richard Scolyer and Professor Georgina Long

MD Anderson Cancer Centre

2018 William O. Russell Lectureship and Joanne Vandenberge Hill Award for Lifetime Achievement in Anatomical Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Centre

New South Wales Premier's Awards, Australian Government

2017 NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research: Wildfire Award for most highly cited paper in a peer reviewed journal. Rizos H, Menzies AM, Pupo GM, Carlino MS, Fung C, Hyman J, Haydu LE, Mijatov B, Becker TM, Boyd SC, Howle J, Saw R, Thompson JF, Kefford RF, Scolyer RA, Long GV. BRAF Inhibitor Resistance Mechanisms in Metastatic Melanoma: Spectrum and Clinical Impact. Clin Cancer Res. 2014 Apr 1;20(7):1965-77

New South Wales Premier's Awards, Australian Government

2017 Excellence in Translational Cancer Research, NSW Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research, Cancer Institute NSW. Scolyer RA and Long GV

Sydney Catalyst International Cancer Research Symposium

2017 Sydney Catalyst International Cancer Research Symposium - Top poster presentations “CD103+ tumour-resident CD8+ T cells are associated with improved survival in immunotherapy naive melanoma patients and respond to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy”. Jarem Edwards, James S. Wilmott, Jason Madore, Tuba Nur Gide, Camelia Quek, Jinbiao Chen, Rehana Hewavisenti, Peter Hersey, Thomas Gebhardt, Wolfgang Weninger, Warwick J. Britton, Robyn P. M. Saw, John F. Thompson, Alexander M. Menzies, Georgina V. Lo

Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology

2017 Commendation Award (second prize) Pathologist/Scientist category for the best abstract at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology. “Biomarkers of Response and Resistance to Combined Anti-CTLA-4 and Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy in Melanoma Patients Utilising Multiplex Immunofluorescence” Nur Gide T, Quek C, Madore J, Menzies AM, Dent R, Carlino M, Guminski A, Saw R, Thompson J, Scolyer RA, Long GV, Wilmott J

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Foundation

2016 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Foundation Research Medal and Prize, 2016

2016 Cancer Institute NSW Premiers Awards

2016 Cancer Institute NSW Premiers Awards: Wildfire Award, most cited article published in 2013: Long GV, Wilmott JS, Capper D, Preusser M, Zhang YE, Thompson JF, Kefford RF, von Deimling A, Scolyer RA., Am J Surg Pathol 2013

Thomson Reuters

2015 Winner Thomson Reuters Citation and Innovation Award for outstanding research team for research in BRAF-mutated melanoma. Co-winners Professor Georgina Long, Professor Richard Kefford, Professor Grant McArthur. 2015

New South Wales Premier Office, Australian Government

2014 Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research: Wildfire Award for most cited article published in a peer reviewed journal between 1 January 2011– 31 December 2011; Long GV, Menzies AM, Nagrial AM, Haydu L, Hamilton AL, Mann GJ, Hughes TM, Thompson JF, Scolyer RA, Kefford, RF. “Prognostic and clinico-pathologic associations of oncogenic BRAF in metastatic melanoma.” J Clin Onc 2011

New South Wales Premier's Office, Australian Government

2013 NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research: Wildfire Award for most highly cited paper in a peer reviewed journal between 1 January 2010– 31 December 2010: Guitera P, Pellacani G, Crotty KA, Scolyer RA, Li L-XL, Bassoli S, Vinceti M, Rabinovitz H, Longo C, Menzies SW. ‘The Impact of In Vivo Reflectance Confocal Microscopy on the Diagnostic Accuracy of Lentigo Maligna and Equivocal Pigmented and Nonpigmented Macules of the Face.’ J Invest Dermatol 2010

New South Wales Premier's Office, Australian Government

2012 Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research: Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow,2012

New South Wales Premier's Office, Australian Government

2009 Premier's Award for Excellence in Translational Research: Sydney Melanoma Unit (CINSW Translational Program Grant CIs: Mann, Thompson, Kefford, Scolyer, Hersey, Menzies, Christopherson), 2009

New South Wales Premier's Office, Australian Government

2009 Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research: Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow, 2009

Annual Scientific Meeting of Australasian Division of the IAP, Sydney, 2005

Commendation (2nd prize) for poster presentation (scientist/pathologist): Zhuang L, Lee CS, Scolyer RA, McCarthy SW, Zhang X, Thompson JF, Bron LP, Hersey P. Involvement of Tumour Necrosis Factor-related Apoptosis-inducing Ligand (TRAIL) and Its Death Receptors (DR4 and DR5) in Human Melanoma. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australasian Division of the IAP, Sydney, 2005

Swiss Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians

1st prize for poster presentations at Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians, Lugano, Switzerland. Heinzelmann-Schwarz VA, Gardiner-Garden M, Henshall SM, Scurry J, Scolyer RA, Fink D, Sutherland RL, Hacker NF, O’Brien PM. Galectin 4 and Meprin A are new candidate diagnostic markers for mucinous ovarian cancer, 2005

Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology

2nd Prize for Poster presentations at Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology. Heinzelmann-Schwarz V, Gardiner-Garden M, Henshall S, Gish K, Scurry J, Scolyer R, Hacker N, O’Brien P, Sutherland R. Interstudy validation of gene expression profiles identifies candidate biomarkers of epithelial ovarian cancer, 2003

Sentinel Node Congress 2002

Young Investigators Award International. Sentinel Node Congress, Yokohama Japan,2002