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**Fiona Melanie Wood**

Occupation: Plastic Surgeon
====Fiona wood was born in Yorkshire, England and strated a course in plastic surgery at a major british hospital before migrating to Perth with her Australian husband and first two childeren. She then finished her course and had four more childeren.==== ====Wood was first pushed into the spotlight in October 2002 when she led a team working to save 28 patients that were suffering from 2 to 92 per cent body burns, deadly infections and delayed shock after the Bali Bombings that year. She has recieved a number of awards, such as an Order of Australia in 2003 and Australian of the year in 2005. She was also voted the mosd trusted Australian in a Readers Digest poll for six years in a row from 2005-2010 for helping in an emergancy medical response for burn victims when the Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashed.==== ====Fiona is most famous for her inventon of spray-on skin. Intened for burn victims, it is constantly being imrooved. Through reshearch she has foiund that the occurnece of scars can be majorly reduced if skin is provided whithin 10 days. She then started a company called Clinical Cell Culture (C3) to commercialise the project. Her first chance to use the product came when a school teacher arrived at the Royal Perth Hospital in 1922, with petrol burns to 90% of his body. Wood worked at night with scientist Marie Stoner and the two women began exploring tissue engineering.They went from growing skin sheets to spraying skin cells, earning themselves a worldwide reputation as pioneers in their feild.====

====They made the discovery public in 1993 and now cultures small biopsies into bigger volumes of skin cell suspensions in as little as five days. This service is currently used in Sydeny, Aukland and Birmingham and can be delivered through air-craft ready for use the next day.====

====If I were to become a scientist the I would work in Vetrenary science, because I love working with animals, and helping them if they were sick or hurt would really make my day. I would also chose this feild of science so that I could discover cures to old and new desieses that animals only animals get affected by.====