Awards & Winners

Barry Marshall

Date of Birth 30-September-1951
Place of Birth Kalgoorlie
(Australia, Western Australia)
Nationality Australia
Also know as Barry James Marshall, Dr. Marshall, Dr. Barry Marshall
Profession Scientist, Physician, Professor
Barry James Marshall, AC, FRACP, FRS, FAA, DSc is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.

Awards by Barry Marshall

Check all the awards nominated and won by Barry Marshall.

2005


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease)

2002


Keio Medical Science Prize
(Isolation and cultivation of Helicobacter pylori - pioneering work in diagnosis and treatment -)

1996


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For the discovery of the role of Helicobacter Pylori as a cause of peptic ulcer disease and the benefit that patients receive from its eradication.)

1995


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For the visionary discovery that Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulcer disease. )