Professor Barry Marshall
(Nobel Laureate 2005 and currently University Malaya Nobel Fellow)
“THE HELICOBACTER PYLORI STORY- THE ROAD TO THE NOBEL PRIZE!”
Welcome Dinner
Venue: Sabah Ballroom, Shangri-La Hotel
FRIDAY 13th January
Time: 8.00-10.00pm
Dr. Marshall is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005, alongside his long-time collaborator Robin Warren. The recognition was "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease". Marshall also received the Warren Alpert Prize in 1994; the Australian Medical Association Award and the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1995; the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1996; the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1997; the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, the Florey Medal, and the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in 1998; the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Sciences in 1999; the Keio Medical Science Prize in 2002; and the Australian Centenary Medal in 2003. Marshall was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Oxford in 2009.
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