Barry J. Marshall
Barry J. Marshall has managed a Helicobacter pylori research group almost since he discovered Helicobacter pylori with Robin Warren in 1982. Prof. Marshall received many honors for his work on Helicobacter pylori, most notably the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 2005. In the past few years, Prof. Marshall’s laboratory has developed enhanced methods for noninvasive studies on the molecular epidemiology of H. pylori, notably a rapid breath test and retrieval of the organism (and culture) from a swallowed string. Prof. Marshall has recently succeeded in drawing investor funding from international and national sources for the creation of Ondek, a small biotech company focused on developing new biologic delivery systems for vaccines and therapeutics, utilizing genetically modified Helicobacter pylori.