• Question: What do you feel your reasearch will help to acheive?

    Asked by laffe2taffe to Claire, Elizabeth, Manolis, Mark, Zach on 7 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by demileedoo, .
    • Photo: Zach Dixon

      Zach Dixon answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      I would like my research to contribute to making new drugs for cancer patients.

      But like all scientists, the thrill for me is discovering new things. So as long as I make some new discoveries I will be happy.

    • Photo: Claire Vinten

      Claire Vinten answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      Hi 🙂

      That’s a really important question, because doing research costs lots of money, so we need to make sure we are spending that money on something worthwhile.

      I am trying to make vets better at making decisions. Vets have to make lots of choices, for example which medicine to give a poorly animal? Do they need an xray? Do they need an operation? My research is trying to help make vets (especially young vets) make the best choice so they can help the animal that is poorly. I hope that this will help both pets and owners in the long run.

      Claire 🙂

    • Photo: Mark Wallace

      Mark Wallace answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      It’ll help figure out how diseases like pneumonia and MRSA work.

      It’ll help build new tools to find new medicines much quicker than before.

    • Photo: Elizabeth Ratcliffe

      Elizabeth Ratcliffe answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Hi laffe2taffe, I hope to achieve new solutions to barriers in making cell-based medicines (regenerative therapies) and gene therapies. These medicines help the body to fix itself and many of them target incurable diseases like Parkinson’s, stroke, heart disease, rare genetic diseases and some forms of cancer and blindness. Many of the barriers we face are around “scale-up” which involves changing the manufacturing process from a small volume to a much larger volume. I hope to develop technology and methods that will allow companies to be able to safely make the required volumes of the therapy to treat the many patients who need it.

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