3. Fiona Wood, born on 2 February 1958, is a plastic surgeon working in
Perth. She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital burns unit and
the Western Australia Burns Service.
Wood developed spray-on skin for burn victims, a treatment which is
continually improved. Previous techniques of skin regrowth required 21
days to produce enough skin cells to cover the major burns. Wood has
decreased this period to five days. Her research found that skin
replacement within 10 days of burns result in no scarring.
4. Along with scientist Marie Stoner, they moved away from growing
skin sheets to spraying skin cells. The company, Clinical Cell Culture,
started operating in 1993 and whose service is used to surgeons in
Sydney, Auckland and Birmingham. Cells can be delivered via
aircraft and ready for use the next day.
Due to her development, the majority of the 2002 Bali Bombing
survivors have had treatment for their burns and prevention of
deadly infections.
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6. Peter Charles Doherty, born on 15 October 1940, is an Australian
veterinary surgeon, immunologist, pathologist and researcher in the
field of medicine.
Peter Doherty shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996
with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discovery of how the
immune system recognises virus-infected cells. His research is mainly in
the area of defence against viruses.
Doherty began collaborating with Zinkernagel in studying what role the
white blood cells known as T lymphocytes (T cells) play in mice infected
with a particular type of virus able to cause meningitis. They theorized that
it was the strength of the immune response itself that caused the fatal
destruction of brain cells in mice infected with this virus.
7. Peter and his research colleague discovered how the body's immune
system recognises virus-infected cells, and his work has had a major
impact on the medical profession's understanding of transplants and
vaccine production
