Education
Warren received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Adelaide, having completed his high school education at Street Peter"s College, Adelaide.
Warren received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Adelaide, having completed his high school education at Street Peter"s College, Adelaide.
The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is the cause of most peptic ulcers. Warren trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and became Registrar in Clinical Pathology at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (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
Warren helped develop a convenient diagnostic test (14C-urea breath-test) for detecting H. pylori in ulcer patients.
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 Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007. Winifred Warren went on to become an accomplished psychiatrist.
Australian Academy of Science.
