October 4, 2005

The Gairdner Foundation extends congratulations to Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren
of Perth, Australia on being awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine “for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.”

Dr. Barry Marshall received a Gairdner Award in 1996 “for the discovery of the role of Helicobacter Pylori as a cause of peptic ulcer disease and the benefit that patients receive from its eradication.”

Dr. Marshall’s Nobel prize marks the 65th time that a Gairdner awardee has won the Nobel Prize, after on an average having received the Gairdner seven years earlier.

Dr. John Dirks,
President,The Gairdner Foundation, Toronto