Barry Marshall - Life and research, Other awards, Appearance in infomercial, Trivia

Microbiologist, born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. He studied at the University of Western Australia (1968–74) and began work at the Royal Perth Hospital as research fellow (1977–76). He held senior posts at the University of Virginia, USA (1986–96) before joining the University of Western Australia as clinical professor of medicine (1997) and microbiology (1999), and in 2003 was appointed NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. In 2005 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with J Robin Warren for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.

Barry James Marshall, FRS FAA (born 30 September 1951 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) is an Australian physician and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia.

Life and research

Professor Marshall (Medicine and Pharmacology) completed his undergraduate medical degree at UWA in 1974.

The H. To force people to pay attention to this theory, Marshall drank a petri-dish of the bacteria and soon developed gastritis. Marshall's illness and recovery, based on a culture of organisms extracted from a patient, partially fulfilled Koch's postulates for H.

After this work at Fremantle Hospital, Marshall did research at the University of Virginia, USA, before returning to Australia in 1997.

In 2005, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Dr. Marshall and his long-time collaborator Dr. Warren "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease". Professor Marshall continues research related to H.

Other awards

Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1995 Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005 List of additional awards

Appearance in infomercial

Recently Dr. Marshall, or someone claiming to be him, appeared in an infomercial by Bottom Line Health, promoting The World's Greatest Treasury of Health Secrets, which is not a peer-reviewed book. The man identified as Marshall describes his research and later says "Really you should get out there and buy this book."

Bottom Line Health claims in the infomercial that no doctor was paid for the inclusion of their research in the book, however the publisher does not specify that Dr. Marshall was not compensated for his appearance in the video program promoting it.

Trivia

When Barry Marshall was twenty-one he was a state yo-yo champion.