Helicobacter Pioneers: Firsthand Accounts From Thescientists Who Discovered Helicobacters, 1892-1982

Blackwell is proud to announce Professor Barry Marshall, along with Dr. Robin Warren, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Providing background and the human touch of a discovery process taking almost a century, Helicobacter Pioneers is a collection of accounts from pioneering researchers of Helicobacter pylori, of who had firsthand knowledge of the pioneer.

A remarkable work with original accounts that will never date, this book will inspire readers interested in gastroenterology, microbiology, or any facet of medical or scientific history.

Barry J. Marshall – Curriculum Vitae
Barry J. Marshall, born September 30, 1951, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Academic Education and Appointments
1968-74 M.B., B.S., Univ. of Western Australia
1977-84 Registrar, Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital
1985-86 NHMRC Research Fellow, Gastroenterology, Royal Perth Hospital
1986-94 Research Fellow and Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Virginia
1996 Professor of Research in Internal Medicine, Univ. of Virginia
1997 Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Western Australia
1999 Clinical Professor of Microbiology, Univ. of Western Australia
2003 NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Univ. of Western Australia

Selected Honours and Awards
1994 Warren Alpert Prize (shared with J.R. Warren)
1995 Australian Medical Association Award (shared with J.R. Warren)
1995 Albert Lasker Award
1996 Gairdner Award
1997 Paul Ehrlich Prize (shared with J.R. Warren)
1998 DR AH Heineken Prize for Medicine, Amsterdam
1998 Florey Medal, Canberra
1998 Buchanan Medal, Royal Society
1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Sciences, Philadelphia
2002 Keio Medical Science Prize
2003 Australian Centenary Meda
2005 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with J.R. Warren)

Foreward.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgements

1. Helicobacters were discovered in Italy in 1892: An episode in the scientific life of an eclectic pathlogist, Giulio Bizzozero.

   Natale Figura and Laura Bianciardi
   

2. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Japan.

   Yoshihiro Fukuda, Tadashi Shimoyama, Takahashi Shimoyana and Barry J Marshall
   

3. An early study of human stomach bacteria.

   A Stone Freedberg
   

4. Gastric urease in ulcer patients in the 1940's: The Irish connection.

   Humphrey J O'Connor and Colm A O'Morian
   

5. How it was discovered in Belgium and the USA (1955 -1976) that gastric urease was caused by a bacterial infection.

   Charles S Lieber
   

6. A personal history of giving birth to the cohort phenomenon of peptic ulcer disease.

   Amnon Sonnenberg
   

7. John Lykoudis: The general practitioner in Greece who in 1958 discovered the etiology and a treatment of peptic ulcer disease.

   Basil Rigas and Efstathios D Papavassiliou
   

8. How I discovered helicobacters in Boston in 1967.

   Susumu Ito
   

9. How we discovered in China in 1972 that antibiotics cure peptic ulcer.

   Shu-Dong Xiao, Yao Shi and Wen-Zheng Liu
   

10. Helicobacter pylori was discovered in Russia in 1974.

    Igor A Morozov
    

11. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in England in the 1970's.

    Howard W Steer
    

12. We grew the first Helicobacter and didn't even know it!.

    Adrian Lee, Michael Phillips and Jani O'Rourke
    

13. The Dallas experience with acute Helicobacter pylori infection.

    Walter L Peterson, William Harford and Barry J Marshall
    

14. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Perth, Western Australia.

    J Robin Warren
    

15. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori, a spiral bacterium, caused peptic ulcer disease.

    Barry J Marshall
    

16. Helicobacter pylori treatment in the past and in the 21st Century.

    Peter Unge

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