An Evening with Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall MD

The Inventors Association of Australia (WA) Inc, in collaboration with the Innovation Centre of WA, has the pleasure of hosting an evening with one of Western Australia's most famous sons, Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall M.D.

Barry Marshall will share his inspirational journey from young clinical fellow at the Royal Perth Hospital in WA to standing in the spotlight on the world stage as the joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005. Together with J. Robin Warren, a pathologist from Perth, Barry Marshall M.D. made the remarkable and unexpected discovery that inflammation in the stomach, as well as ulceration of the stomach, is the result of an infection of the stomach caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

Their tenacious pursuit of a new paradigm for peptic ulcer disease led to their ground-breaking discovery.  Join us to hear Barry Marshall M.D. share his story of how innate curiosity, obstinately challenging the status quo and some good old fashioned self-experimenting, led to this scientific breakthrough.

If you thought that today's inventors and start-ups face serious challenges in getting new ventures off the ground and finding commercial success, then you will find inspiration in hearing Barry Marshall M.D. share his thoughts on how to challenge the status quo.