Australian pathologist
John Robin Warren
AC
(born 11 June 1937, in
Adelaide
) is an Australian
pathologist
,
Nobel
Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the
bacterium
Helicobacter pylori
, together with
Barry Marshall
.
[1]
The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)
[1]
is the cause of most
peptic ulcers
.
[1]
Early life and education
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Warren received his
M.B.B.S.
degree from the
University of Adelaide
, having completed his high school education at
St Peter's College, Adelaide
.
Career
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Warren trained at the
Royal Adelaide Hospital
and became Registrar in Clinical Pathology at the
Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science
(IMVS), where he worked in laboratory haematology which generated his interest in pathology.
In 1963, Warren was appointed Honorary Clinical Assistant in Pathology and Honorary Registrar in Haematology at Royal Adelaide Hospital. Subsequently, he lectured in pathology at Adelaide University, then took up the position of Clinical Pathology Registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 1967, Warren was elected to the
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
and became a senior pathologist at the
Royal Perth Hospital
where he spent the majority of his career.
Nobel Prize work
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At the
University of Western Australia
, with his colleague
Barry J. Marshall
, Warren proved that the bacterium is the infectious cause of
stomach ulcers
.
[2]
Warren helped develop a convenient diagnostic test (
14
C
-urea breath-test
) for detecting
H. pylori
in ulcer patients.
[3]
In 2005, Warren and Marshall were awarded the
Nobel Prize in Medicine
.
An Australian documentary was made in 2006 about Warren and Marshall's road to the Nobel Prize, called "The Winner's Guide to the Nobel Prize". He was appointed a
Companion of the Order of Australia
in 2007.
[4]
Asteroid
254863 Robinwarren
, discovered by Italian amateur astronomer
Silvano Casulli
in 2005, was named in his honour.
[5]
The official
naming citation
was published by the
Minor Planet Center
on 22 April 2016 (
M.P.C.
99893
).
[6]
Personal life
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Warren married Winifred Theresa Warren (nee Williams) in the early 1960s and together they had five children.
[7]
Winifred Warren went on to become an accomplished psychiatrist. Following her death in 1997, Warren retired from medicine.
[7]
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