The Florey Medal is an Australian award for biomedical research named in honour of Australian Nobel laureate Howard Florey. The medal is awarded biennially and the recipient receives $25,000 in prize money.

The Medal was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Florey's birth. It is administered by the Australian Institute of Political Science

Australian Institute of Political Science

AIPS, the was founded in 1932. Originally known as the Australian Institute of Political Science, its aim was to further public understanding of Australia's political and economic situation during the Great Depression and beyond. In 2006 the organisation changed its name to the Australian...

 and has been sponsored by F H Faulding, then Mayne (when they took over Fauldings), Merck Sharp & Dohme, and is currently sponsored by CSL Limited

CSL Limited

CSL Limited is a global specialty biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops, manufactures and markets products to treat and prevent serious human medical conditions...

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Recipients

• 1998 - Barry Marshall
  Barry Marshall
  Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall is well-known for proving that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA...
  
   and Robin Warren
  Robin Warren
  John Robin Warren AC is an Australian pathologist, Nobel Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall.- Life and career :...
  
   for their work on Helicobacter pylori
  Helicobacter pylori
  Helicobacter pylori , previously named Campylobacter pyloridis, is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium found in the stomach. It was identified in 1982 by Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, who found that it was present in patients with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers, conditions that were...
  
  and its role in gastritis
  Gastritis
  Gastritis is an inflammation of the lining of the stomach, and has many possible causes. The main acute causes are excessive alcohol consumption or prolonged use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin or ibuprofen. Sometimes gastritis develops after major surgery, traumatic...
  
   and peptic ulcer disease
• 2000 - Jacques Miller
  Jacques Miller
  Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller AC FRS is a distinguished research scientist. He is famous for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes and their function.-Early life:Miller was born on 2 April 1931,...
  
   for work on the function of the thymus
  Thymus
  The thymus is a specialized organ of the immune system. The thymus produces and "educates" T-lymphocytes , which are critical cells of the adaptive immune system....
  
  
• 2002 - Colin Masters for Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
  
   research
• 2004 - Peter Colman for structural biology research
• 2006 - Ian Frazer
  Ian Frazer
  Professor Ian Frazer is the Director of the Diamantina Institute. He is a creator of the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer; the second cancer preventing vaccine, and the first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer. .- Education:He was born in Glasgow, Scotland...
  
   for development of the cervical cancer
  Cervical cancer
  Cervical cancer is malignant neoplasm of the cervix uteri or cervical area. One of the most common symptoms is abnormal vaginal bleeding, but in some cases there may be no obvious symptoms until the cancer is in its advanced stages...
  
   vaccine Gardasil.
• 2009 - John Hopwood for research and clinical application in lysosomal disorders
  Lysosomal storage disease
  Lysosomal storage diseases are a group of approximately 50 rare inherited metabolic disorders that result from defects in lysosomal function...
  
  lysosomal disorders.