Ian Frazer

Ian Frazer

Academy of Achievement

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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 ...Read More
Ian Frazer was working with AIDS patients in the early 1980s when he first noticed a corre...Read More