Nobel Prize winner, Professor Barry J Marshall AC, will present a public speech on “The Journey of a Nobel Scientist” at The University of Queensland on Thursday July 24.
The speech will take place in the QBP Auditorium, Building 80, Chancellors Place at UQ’s St Lucia campus from 6:00pm until 7:15pm.
Professor Marshall together with Dr J Robin Warren received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2005 in recognition of the discovery they made in 1982 that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, causes peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer.
Proving he was a doctor who could not only develop, but literally liked the taste of his own medicine Professor Marshall fulfilled Koch’s postulates forH. pylori when he drank a culture of H. pylori in 1984. He then created combinations of drugs that killed the bacteria and eliminated ulcers permanently.
Professor Marshall’s hypothesis was accepted by the World Health Organisation in 1994 and has been acknowledged as the most significant discovery in the history of gastroenterology.
This work has since been likened to the development of the polio vaccine and the eradication of smallpox.
Professor Marshall was elected to the US National Academy of Science earlier this year and both he and Dr Warren were awarded The Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2007.
Professor Marshall has received prestigious awards from around the globe most notably
The Warren Alpert Prize from Harvard Medical School, The Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Science, The Keio Medical Science Prize in Tokyo and the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health
When he’s not consulting as a Gastroenterologist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Professor Marshall is the Co-Director of the Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training; the Founder & Director of biotechnology company ONDEK and diagnostics company TRI-MED; a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Western Australia ;and has been appointed “Ambassador of Life Sciences for Western Australia” by the West Australian Government.
Complimentary parking will be available at the Multi-Level Car Parks on Sir Fred Schonell Drive, St Lucia
Online registration forms are available at: www.uq.edu.au/events/register/marshall
Media contact:Tania Hudspith UQ Protocol Officer (07 3365 1596/ t.hudspith@uq.edu.au) Brooke Hargraves UQ Communications (0448 235 303/ s4100883@student.uq.edu.au)
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