Robin Warren

Robin Warren Pathologist
Institutions	Royal Perth Hospital

John Robin Warren

Early life and education

Warren received his M.B.B.S. degree from the University of Adelaide, having completed his high school education at St Peter's College, Adelaide.

Career

Warren trained at the

(IMVS), where he worked in laboratory haematology which generated his interest in pathology.

In 1963, Warren was appointed Honorary Clinical Assistant in Pathology and Honorary Registrar in Haematology at Royal Adelaide Hospital. Subsequently, he lectured in pathology at Adelaide University, then took up the position of Clinical Pathology Registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 1967, Warren was elected to the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and became a senior pathologist at the Royal Perth Hospital where he spent the majority of his career.

Nobel Prize work

At the

In 2005, Warren and Marshall were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

An Australian documentary was made in 2006 about Warren and Marshall's road to the Nobel Prize, called "The Winner's Guide to the Nobel Prize". He was appointed a

Asteroid

Personal life

Warren married Winifred Theresa Warren (née Williams) in the early 1960s and together they had five children.[7] Winifred Warren went on to become an accomplished psychiatrist. Following her death in 1997, Warren retired from medicine.^[7]

See also

• Timeline of peptic ulcer disease and Helicobacter pylori

References

External links

• Robin Warren on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture Helicobacter - The Ease and Difficulty of a New Discovery
• Robin Warrens homepage