John robin warren biography

  • John Robin Warren AC (11 June – 23 July ) was an.
  • I was born on the 11th of June , in North Adelaide, South Australia, the first child of middle-class parents.
  • John Robin Warren AC was an Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate, and researcher who is credited with the re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall.

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    Teacher notes - Dr Robin Warren

    Pathologist

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    Introduction

    Professor Robin Warren was interviewed in for the Interviews with Australian scientists series. By viewing the interviews in this series, or reading the transcripts and extracts, your students can begin to appreciate Australia's contribution to the growth of scientific knowledge.

    The following summary of Warren's career sets the context for the extract chosen for these teachers notes. The extract discusses how Warren first realised that there were bacteria living in the stomach. Use the focus questions that accompany the extract to promote discussion among your students.

    Summary of career

    John Robin (Robin) Warren was born in Adelaide in He was educated at the University of Adelaide where he received an MBBS in All areas of medicine were interesting to him, but he found p

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    Text Biography

    Warren, (John) Robin (– )

    Australian pathologist, who with Australian physician and microbiologist Barry J Marshall shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in for the discovery of the Helicobacter pylori bacterium and the determination of its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Their work demonstrated that the majority of stomach ulcers could be cured by treatment with antibiotics.

    Until the s, stomach ulcers were considered to be an incurable condition that developed in a sufferer due to stress and lifestyle factors. The established scientific opinion was that symptoms could be controlled using anti‐ulcer drugs to regulate acid in the stomach, but that the condition could not be totally treated. Warren discovered that unusual curved bacteria were funnen in half of all biopsies taken from the lower stomach of patients suffering from stomach ulcers. He collaborated with Marshall to study the bacterium, which was eventually cultured under lab co

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    Dr Robin Warren, pathologist

    John Robin Warren was born in Adelaide in Despite an equal love for photography Warren entered medical school at the University of Adelaide, graduating with an MB and BS in A chance turn of fate led Warren to pathology and after training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in he was admitted to the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Warren then moved to Perth to take up a position as staff specialist in pathology at the Royal Perth Hospital (–98). It was during this time that Warren first observed bacteria in stomach sections associated with peptic ulcers (). Warren began to work with Barry Marshall in and together they were able to demonstrate that the bacteria Warren observed (now called Helicobacter pylori) was the causative agent in peptic ulcers. This revolutionary discovery was at first rejected by the medical fraternity but finally led to a cure for peptic ulcers.

    Interviewed by Norman Swan in

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