Vaccine developer Australian of the Year
26 January 2006
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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The Australian of the year 2006 was announced as professor Ian Frazer for his work in developing a vaccine for cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is typically caused by the papilloma virus. Dr Frazer has done clinical tiral on the vaccine against this virus and showed that it can reduce pap smear abnormalities by 90%. It is thought that this vaccine could essenitally get rid of cervical cancers within a decade for women worldwide. Trained as a renal physician and clinical immunologist in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ian Frazer emigrated in 1980 to Melbourne to study immunology at the Walter and Eliza institute. He moved north to Brisbane in 1985 to take up a teaching post with the University of Queensland. He is now heads the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. |
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