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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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| Important Dates |
Abstract Submission Deadline:
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Registrations Open:
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Author Notifications:
Friday, 23 July 2010
Early Bird Registration Deadline
Monday, 20 September 2010
Speaker Registration Deadline:
Monday, 20 September 2010 |
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