ACRF research funds critical to keeping international edge: Frazer Posted on April 15, 2006February 25, 2018 by Carly du Toit The ACRF extends its congratulations to Professor Ian Frazer – Australian of the Year 2006. Professor Frazer, from Brisbane, was given the award for his outstanding medical research. The founder and leader of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, Professor Frazer has proven the link between cervical cancers and the papilloma virus. After almost 20 years of research, he has developed a vaccine with the potential to eradicate cervical cancer within a decade. The vaccine is in the final stages of world-wide trials. It has been proven to prevent infection and reduces pap smear abnormalities by 90%. Expected to be on the market by the end of 2006, his preventive vaccine will revolutionise women’s health in Australia and across the globe. Currently, the disease affects 500,000 women each year. Professor Frazer, guest speaker at the ACRF Chairman’s Dinner, was helped in his quest to develop the vaccine by a $1million ACRF grant to the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research in 1999. Continue reading “ACRF research funds critical to keeping international edge: Frazer”
