This is the podcast with Professor Barry Marshall and Professor Emad El-Omar to accompany the #FGDebate entitled 'Frontline Research: The highs and lows of academic life - the basics, the barriers and the breakthroughs' held on Sunday 21st December 2014.

Professor Barry Marshall is a an honorary Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, University of Western Australia. Amongst his many international accolades, in 2005 Professor Marshall and Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their 1982 discovery that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, causes one of the most common and important diseases of mankind, peptic ulcer disease. This discovery was the first step in developing more effective treatments for ulcers and in understanding the causative link between H. pylori and stomach cancer.

Professor Emad El-Omar is the Chair of Gastroenterology at Aberdeen University, Scotland. He is also an Honorary Consultant Physician with NHS Grampian. Amongst his many international accolades and Editorial board positions, he is the Editor in Chief of the journal Gut. His main research interests are in the role of microbially-induced inflammation in GI cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. His group has strong collaborations with national groups within the UK and international groups in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.

We hope you enjoy it and wish you a Happy Christmas and New Year 2015 from all the Frontline Gastroenterology and Gut team.

View the accompanying slides: http://goo.gl/2N5NrH