• Question: Have you ever been apart of making a life saving cure?

    Asked by to Claire, Ian, Sergey, Vicky, Zena on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Sergey Lamzin

      Sergey Lamzin answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I indeed have.
      My best friend once broke his arm on the snowboard.

      Without me there to ‘make the cure’ call 112 he surely wouldn’t have made it!

      You don’t have to be a scientist to save lives 🙂 Having a phone that works is already a step in the right direction.

    • Photo: Zena Hira

      Zena Hira answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I have some results now that can be used for improving the treatment for patients with blood cancer so hopefully I will save someone soon

    • Photo: Vicky Schneider

      Vicky Schneider answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      no, I always worked on basic research in evolutionary biology…so questions about natural selection in Cichlids, parasitoid wasps…etc etc

    • Photo: Ian Simpson

      Ian Simpson answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Most of what we work on is related to disease though nearly all of it is at the discovery stage (i.e. working out what’s going wrong). We have a collaboration with a pharmaceutical company that is pretty exciting focussed on identifying drug targets for a couple of neurological diseases.

      The closest thing we have to the clinic right now is a project to use computational methods to classify the severity of breast cancers in patients to predict what the best form of treatment for them is. We hope to develop this into a software product for the NHS and have recently secured funding to take the project to the pilot phase.

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