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Ian Hector Frazer (born
January 6,
1953) is an
Australian immunologist, best known for his work on the development of a
cervical cancer vaccine, which works by protecting women from
Human papillomavirus (HPV).
Frazer was born in
Glasgow,
Scotland. Frazer initially enrolled to study physics at
Edinburgh University, but the emerging job prospects at that time didn't appeal to him and so he switched to training as a physician, specialising in immunology. He emigrated to
Melbourne in 1980 to research viral immunology at the
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and moved to Queensland in 1985 where he currently heads the
University of Queensland's Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine at the
Princess Alexandra Hospital.
In 2005 Frazer and his research groups undertook clinical study of a vaccine against
human papillomavirus, which was 100% effective in preventing common cervical cancers caused by the virus. The drug is named
Gardasil and has been approved by the US
Food and Drug Administration and has been approved for use in the European Union. Ian Frazer personally administered the first publicly available injection of the vaccine in Australia in August 2006. He is also involved in a large clinical trial taking place in Australia and
China of a therapeutic vaccine against
genital warts.
In January 2006 he was named
Australian of the Year. Also in that year, he received the
Cancer Research Institute
's
William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology along with Harald zur Hausen. He was awarded the
Florey Medal for biomedical research in March 2007.
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