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Professor Barry Marshall (Australia)
In 2005 Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, in recognition of their 1982 discovery that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, causes one of the most common and important diseases of mankind, peptic ulcer disease.
The hypothesis that H.pylori is a causative factor of stomach cancer was accepted in 1994 by the World Health Organisation.
This work has now been acknowledged as the most significant discovery in the history of gastroenterology and is compared to the development of the polio vaccine and the eradication of smallpox.
In 2008 Professor Marshall was elected into the prestigious US National Academy of Science.
Current Positions
- Elected as a Foreign Member to the National Academy of Sciences
- Clinical Professor of Medicine (University of Western Australia)
- Consultant Gastroenterologist (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital)
- Co‐Director of the Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research & Training
- Founder and Director of ONDEK, a biotechnology company
- Founder and Director of TRI‐MED a diagnostics company
- Ambassador for Life Sciences for Western Australia – a State Government appointment.
- Honorary Patron of Scitech
- Patron of the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science
- Francis R & Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science at Penn State University, USA
- Guest Professor of Internal Medicine at Keio University, Japan
Recent Awards
- Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causea, University of Oxford, UK 2009
- Honorary Doctorate in Medicine at Örebro University, Sweden 2009
- Lennon K. Black Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research Jefferson College, USA 2008
- The Keio Medical Science Prize 2002
- Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health 2001
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science 1999
- Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Science 1999
- Member of the Royal Society, UK 1999
- The Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 1998
- The Florey Medal, Australia 1998
- The Gairdner Award, Toronto Canada 1996
- The John Scott Award, City Of Philadelphia 1995
- The Albert Lasker Award 1995
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Professor Stephen Hill
Until 2006 Professor Stephen Hill was the Jakarta-based Regional Director of Science for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He has also held the position of UNESCO Representative or Ambassador to Brunei Darussalem, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Timor Leste, and Special Envoy of the Director-General to Singapore. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), based at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.
Professor Hill has held various academic appointments in the USA, Europe and Asia, including a fellowship to the World Innovation Foundation. Much of his long term research has been focused on science and technology policy development and innovation and his current areas of interests include the importance of ‘people to people relationships’ rather than just ‘systems’ based relationships.
Professor Hill has authored and/or co-authored of over 150 publications. He led Australia’s early science relations across the Asian region and is consultant to the Prime Minister’s Science Council in Australia. He is a highly regarded advisor to many Australian national government departments and consultant to several government bodies in Thailand, PR China, Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Cambodia and Mongolia.
Awards
- Australia’s Centennial Medal (2001)
- Member of the Order of Australia (1997)
- Founded and chaired APEC’s program on industrial technology (1991-95)
- Deputy Chair, UNESCO Australian Science Network (1991-95)
- Founded and chaired UNESCO’s Science and Technology Policy Asian Network (STEPAN) (1988-95)
- International Chair of Pacific Science Association’s Social Science and Humanities Network (1987-95)
- Various State Awards and Medals from the Governments of Indonesia and Vietnam
- Honorary Chief of the Dani Tribe of West Papua
- Honorary Purba (last King) by the Batak People of North Sumatra
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| Important Dates |
Abstract Submission Deadline:
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Registrations Open:
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Author Notifications:
Friday, 23 July 2010
Speaker Registration Deadline:
Monday, 20 September 2010 |
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