Abstract

In 1982 Barry Marshall and Robin Warren cultured Helicobacter pylori for the first time and defied conventional medical wisdom by declaring the bacteria the cause of most stomach ulcers. Marshall received the Lasker prize in 1995, the most coveted prize in US medicine, because “rarely do the discoveries of a single individual change the lives of countless millions within … a decade.” And in 2005 Marshall and Warren were awarded the Nobel prize for medicine. Today Marshall is a clinical professor at the University of Western Australia. Ronan W Glynn caught up with him

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