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Robin Warren

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An Australian pathologist at Royal Perth Hospital who in 1981 began finding spiral-shaped bacteria in stomach tissue samples he examined and, working with Barry Marshall from that year, showed by 1982 that the organism, later named Helicobacter pylori, was present in 77 percent of the ulcer patients and 55 percent of the gastritis patients in their combined sample of one hundred biopsies. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Marshall.

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Birth Year
1937 1
Birth Date
1937-06-11 2
Death Year
2024 2
Death Date
2024-07-23 2
Robin Warren
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Co-identified Helicobacter pylori as a cause of peptic ulcer disease, 1982; shared the 2005 Nobel Prize.

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1. Wikidata: Robin Warren
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2. Robin Warren (Wikipedia)
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  • Infobox, birth_date
    1937-06-11
  • Infobox, death_date
    2024-07-23
  • Specialist In: Pathology
  • Associated With: Barry Marshall
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Gut Feeling (Lasker Foundation)
Lasker Foundation
  • Timeline and Finding
  • Discoveries: Discovery of Helicobacter pylori as a Cause of Peptic Ulcer Disease
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Who discovered that bacteria cause stomach ulcers?

Robin Warren and Barry Marshall identified Helicobacter pylori in stomach tissue samples in 1981 to 1982 and shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for the discovery.

Robin Warren, a pathologist at Royal Perth Hospital, began finding spiral-shaped bacteria in stomach tissue samples in 1981. Working with Barry Marshall from that year, he showed by 1982 that the organism, later named Helicobacter pylori, was present in 77 percent of the ulcer patients and 55 percent of the gastritis patients in their combined sample of one hundred biopsies. Warren and Marshall shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the finding.
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