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Vale Robin Warren
Wednesday July 24, 2024
AMA (WA) Honorary Life Member and Nobel Laureate Emeritus Professor Robin Warren AC has passed away at the age of 87.
Prof Warren, a pathologist, and Professor Barry Marshall AC were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005.
As noted by the University of Western Australia, where the pair conducted their groundbreaking research on peptic ulcer disease, they were the first recipients of a Nobel Prize to be awarded for research undertaken in WA.
In addition to the numerous scientific awards for their work on Helicobacter pylori that garnered the Nobel, they received Australia’s highest civilian honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
AMA (WA) President and pathologist Dr Michael Page acknowledged the significant contributions of Prof Warren, a recipient of the AMA (WA) Hippocrates Award.
“Prof Warren was a giant of pathology and medicine more broadly; a Nobel-prize winner who, with gastroenterologist Prof Barry Marshall, made a discovery that transformed the way we understand, diagnose and manage peptic ulcer disease,” he said.
“I extend my condolences to Prof Warren’s family, friends and colleagues.”
As a result of their research, an antibiotic cure for peptic ulcers was developed that significantly reduced the prevalence of the disease.
UWA renamed its medical library the J.Robin Warren Library in 2017, acknowledging his past impact as well as future inspiration to students working and studying in an educational facility named in his honour.
Born in Adelaide, Prof Warren graduated in 1961 with a degree in medicine from the University of Adelaide. He took up a pathology position at Royal Perth Hospital in 1968, where he began collaborating with Prof Marshall in 1981.
Robin Warren Drive, where Fiona Stanley Hospital is located, was named in his honour.
