Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, challenging the prevailing theory that they were caused by stress and diet. He developed a treatment using antibiotics that can now cure patients before ulcers develop into cancer. Fiona Melanie Wood is a British-born plastic surgeon in Perth, Australia who directs the burns unit at Royal Perth Hospital. She invented spray-on skin to temporarily cover severe burns, reducing the time to grow replacement skin cells from 21 days to just 5 days. Fiona Wood has treated many patients with severe burns and helped remove awful scars, giving them hope.

2. Barry James Marshall, is an Australian
physician, who won a Nobel Prize in
Medicine and is a Professor of
Clinical Microbiology at the
University of Western Australia.

3. Barry met Robin Warren, a pathologist interested
in gastritis, during medicine fellowship training
at Royal Perth Hospital in 1981. Marshall and
Robin Warren showed that the bacterium
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the cause of
most peptic ulcers.
Barry developed a theory which states that the
reason for getting ulcers is that the immune
system becomes to vigorous that the white blood
cells create a whole in the stomach leading to
ulcers immediately.

4. For many years, it was thought that
stomach ulcers were caused by
stress, spicy foods and too much
acid. Patients were given antibiotics
(which did not help at all). Barry
Marshell discovered the cause and
the treatment of the ulcers and
gastritis so that many patients can
now be cured before it develops in to
cancer.

6. Fiona Melanie Wood, is a British born
plastic surgeon working in Perth,
Western Australia. She is the
director of the Royal Perth Hospital
burns section and the Western
Australia Burns Service. Wood is
also a Clinical Professor with the
School of Pediatrics and Child Health
at the University of Western
Australia.

7. Wood is now well known for her invention,
spray-on skin which is a spray for those
people who scars caused by burning.
Before her invention, techniques of skin
culturing required 21 days to produce
enough cells to cover major burns, Wood
has reduced the period to five days.
Through research she found that scarring is
reduced if the old skin is replaced within
10 days.

8. Fiona Woods treated many patients
with severe burns in a limited
amount of time. S he was able to give
the patients hope in life because she
could remove their awful scars. She
is a living Australian treasure!!