ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022

Georgia M. Beasley, MD, is an associate professor of surgery in the division of Surgical Oncology at Duke University and has a secondary appointment as an associate professor in the department of medicine. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Duke University. While an undergraduate, she was a 2-time conference player of the year for the Duke Women’s basketball team; she was inducted into the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014. After playing 3 years in the women’s NBA, she returned to medical school. She obtained her MD (2008) and Masters of Health Science in clinical research (2010) from Duke University School of Medicine. She then completed general surgical residency at Duke University in 2015, during which time she was awarded a traineeship under a long-standing Surgical Oncology T32 grant. She then completed a fellowship in complex surgical oncology at the Ohio State University in 2017. She returned to Duke in 2017 as a faculty member. In 2019, she became co-director of the Duke Melanoma Program.

Dr. Beasley is a surgeon scientist with active involvement in clinical and translational research. Her work primarily focuses on studying and utilizing the innate immune system to both predict and enhance response to immune checkpoint blockade. She is the site PI for several clinical trials, leads investigator-initiated trials, and has independent laboratory projects in oncolytic viral therapy and application of immune therapy. She is also board certified in both general surgery and surgical oncology and has an active clinical practice treating patients with melanoma. She has authored over 90 publications centered on melanoma. She has received multiple internal and external funding including the Society of Surgical Oncology’s Young Investigator Award and an NIH K08 mentored physician-scientist award.