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Michael Alpers

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Michael Alpers
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Born
Michael Philip Alpers

Michael Philip Alpers is an Australian medical researcher, and John Curtin distinguished Professor of International Health, at Curtin University.[1][2]

Education

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Alpers graduated from University of Adelaide with a B.Sc. and M.B.B.S. and from University of Cambridge with an M.A.

Career and research

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After graduating, he commenced a career, ultimately resulting in investigating kuru, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.[3][4][5]

He is Honorary Senior Research Associate University College London.[6]

Alpers and his work are the main theme of Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010).[citation needed] He is interviewed in The Genius And The Boys (2009).[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Staff Profile - Professor Michael Alpers".
  2. ^ http://cms.riaustralia.org.au/science/people/healthcare_medicine/michael_alpers.jsp[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Latest news".
  4. ^ Stocklin, W. H. (2008). "My kuru adventure". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 363 (1510): 3666–3667. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.4031. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 2735548. PMID 18849275.
  5. ^ "Michael Alpers (FRS), Kuru, and Papua New Guinea". Health and History. 14 (2): 26–45. 2012. doi:10.5401/healthhist.14.2.0026. ISSN 1442-1771. S2CID 142113962.
  6. ^ "Iris Message".

Further reading

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