Ann Woolcock
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Other names: Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter
Job / Known for: Respiratory physician and scientist
Left traces: She wrote the world's first national guidelines
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Date: 1937-12-11
Location: AU Reynella, South Australia
Died
Date: 2001-02-17 (aged 64)
Resting place: AU Sydney
Death Cause: Unknown
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Ann Woolcock was an Australian respiratory physician and scientist who was one of the world's leading asthma experts. She graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide and pursued postgraduate studies in respiratory medicine at the University of Sydney. Her MD thesis, awarded in 1967, was on the mechanical behaviour of the lungs in asthma. She worked at McGill University in Canada from 1966 to 1968 and then returned to the University of Sydney as a senior research fellow. She was appointed to a personal chair of Respiratory Medicine in 1984. She published over 300 journal articles and book chapters on asthma and epidemiology, showing that asthma was caused by allergens but that there was also a genetic component. She also collaborated with molecular biologists to isolate and clone the genes that encode colony-stimulating factors, which regulate blood cell production. She founded the Institute of Respiratory Medicine, based at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, and opened in 1985. The Institute was renamed the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in her memory in 2002. She was awarded numerous prizes and honors for her contributions to science and medicine, including the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1993, the Prime Minister's Prize for Science in 2000, and the Japan Prize in 2013. She was also elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1992, becoming the first woman in clinical medicine to receive this honor. She died on 17 February 2001 at the age of 63.
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