Nobel laureate in Jakarta

Tue, 03/04/2008 11:11 AM  |  National

JAKARTA: Australian Barry Marshall, the 2005 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, is making a three-day visit to Indonesia, where he will receive a visiting professorship from University Pelita Harapan (UPH) in Karawaci, Tangerang, on Tuesday.

While in Jakarta, Marshall will deliver public lectures on "The excitement of science and the Nobel Prize" at UPH and the Australian Embassy, on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.

In 1982, Marshall and J. Robin Warren discovered a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, causes the common peptic ulcer (stomach ulcer).

The hypothesis that H. pylori was a causative factor of stomach cancer was accepted in 1994 by the World Health Organization.

The pair's work has been acknowledged as the most significant discovery in the history of gastroenterology and is compared to the development of the polio vaccine and the eradication of smallpox.

"I hope the visit will also generate new opportunities for collaboration between Australia and Indonesia in science and medicine, particularly in the areas of biotechnology and research, where Australia is fortunate to have world-leading people like Professor Marshall," the Australian Embassy's charg

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