• Question: are you planning on using your research to improve peoples lives

    Asked by SpindlyCoyote99 to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Dan Lewis

      Dan Lewis answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Most definitely and I hope to continue with researching to always help improve people lives.

    • Photo: Christie Waddington

      Christie Waddington answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Absolutely! My work is on the mitochondria, and we have lots of patients with mitochondrial disease that we don’t know how to treat yet because we don’t know how the mitochondria work. Once we understand how they work, we can work out how to get drugs into them to help out our patients! There’s still so much about the mitochondria we don’t know, and it’s hard to get drugs to go directly to mitochondria. Our research centre is answering these questions with the end goal of treating patients.

    • Photo: Dawn Lau

      Dawn Lau answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Yes, definitely! Being able to improve people’s lives in the future is one of my key motivators for doing my job. We desperately need some form of treatment for dementia because it is becoming a huge burden on society. I really hope that my research will contribute to the development of treatment someday.

    • Photo: Sian Thomas

      Sian Thomas answered on 18 Jun 2016:

      Of course. I am sure that you have to eat at least a few times a day. I use science to make sure that the food available is safe, what it says it is and that there is enough for you to choose what to eat now and in the future. I also make sure that the results of our research are available for other people to see – so that public money is not wasted by repeating work and so that other people can use this as the basis for further research or policy where food is involved but not the main thing.

      Whenever you see food recall notices or hear about food issues in the news – there is a good chance that this was as a result of Food Standards Agency research – and my team manage all of that data!

    • Photo: David Robertson

      David Robertson answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      I really hope so. The mission we are flying improves technology that is currently used to sense the movement of water in earth sensing missions like GOCE (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE ).

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