Nobel Prize achievement
Australia’s newest Nobel laureates, Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren, have been congratulated on the international recognition of their research achievements by the Acting Minister for Health and Ageing, Julie Bishop.
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The Hon Julie Bishop MP
Australian Government
Minister for Ageing4 October 2005
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Australia’s newest Nobel laureates, Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren, have been congratulated on the international recognition of their research achievements by the Acting Minister for Health and Ageing, Julie Bishop.
“All Australians can be proud of these medical discoveries by the West Australian-based team,” Ms Bishop said.
“Professor Marshall and Dr Warren had the courage to overturn established scientific beliefs in their pursuit of new means to ease the pain and discomfort suffered by people with stomach ulcers and gastritis.
“Their path to the Nobel awards followed the observation by Dr Warren of bacteria that colonised the lower part of the stomach in about 50 per cent of patients
“The researchers’ cultivation of the previously-unknown bacterium Helicobacter pylori as a cause of these stomach problems was led by their deep commitment to objective truth – which cut across the prevailing scientific beliefs of the day.
“Australian medical science has taken a position of world leadership with the ninth and tenth Australian Nobel laureates, due to the outstanding quality of our medical researchers,” Ms Bishop said.
“Peptic ulcer disease is no longer a chronic, frequently disabling condition, but a disease that can be cured by a short regimen of antibiotics and acid secretion inhibitors.”
Professor Marshall and Dr Warren are the first West Australians to win a Nobel Prize.
Professor Marshall was recently appointed to the Australian Government’s Legislation Review Committee into the Prohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002 and the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002.
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