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Ian Frazer
by Academy of Achievement
Ian Frazer was working with AIDS patients in the early 1980s when he first noticed a correlation between the sexually transmitted papilloma virus and cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death among women, especially in the developing world. A young immunologist, newly arrived in Australia from Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent the next 20 years exploring the link between the virus and the cancer. "If it's caused by an infection," he reasoned, "maybe we could get a vaccine." The grueling process of creating a vaccine based on the papilloma virus was only part of the struggle. "Science is always about ups and downs," he says, "things that don't work, money that doesn't come in." Not only did Frazer have to prove the vaccine would work, he had to persuade the pharmaceutical companies that it would be profitable to manufacture. In worldwide trials, Frazer's vaccine, Gardasil, completely prevented papilloma infection and reduced Pap smear abnormalities by 90 percent. It has the
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Ian Frazer
Ian Frazer was working with AIDS patients in the early 1980s when he first noticed a correlation between the sexually transmitted papilloma virus and cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death among women, especially in the developing world. A young immunologist, newly arrived in...
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Ian Frazer was working with AIDS patients in the early 1980s when he first noticed a correlation between the sexually transmitted papilloma virus and cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death among women, especially in the developing world. A young immunologist, newly arrived in Australia from Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent the next 20 years exploring the link between the virus and the cancer. "If it's caused by an infection," he reasoned, "maybe we could get a vaccine." The grueling process of creating a vaccine based on the papilloma virus was only part of the struggle. "Science is always about ups and downs," he says, "things that don't work, money that doesn't come in." Not only did Frazer have to prove the vaccine would work, he had to persuade the pharmaceutical companies that it would be profitable to manufacture. In worldwide trials, Frazer's vaccine, Gardasil, completely prevented papilloma infection and reduced Pap smear abnormalities by 90 percent. It has the
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