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Asked by NGxsnipes to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 10 Nov 2014.
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Alex Pool answered on 10 Nov 2014:
Hi NGxsnipes
Each of us works on something very different – if you have a look at our profiles (click on each of our faces) then there’s loads of information about what each of us does.
Personally, I look at how cancer cells divide to make more cancer cells. If we can understand how they do this, then we can create drugs that can stop cancer from growing.
Loads more information, photos and a video link to cells dividing on my profile page though.
Hope that helps.
Alex
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Alison Thomson answered on 11 Nov 2014:
Hi NGxsnipes!
I research motor neurone disease – a disease where our nerves get sick and die. More specifically, I work on one that affects very young children, and how it affects their blood vessels. If we can understand exactly how the disease works and how it affects people, we’ll have a better chance of curing it!
Ali
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Philip Ratcliffe answered on 11 Nov 2014:
Well, I get up at about 7 o’clock in the morning, go to the bathroom and then start getting the kid breakfast ready. Once they’re off to school, I go and get the train that takes me to Como, where I work. Once I’ve got my laptop plugged in and running I go and get a lemon tea from the machine near my office (there’s no normal tea ‘cos we’re in Italy), …
I actually “do” a lot of bureaucratic stuff like meetings, writing reports, signing papers, reading and writing email etc. But then I’m old! As careers progress we do less and less what we did at the beginning (research) and that made it fun and more and more other stuff. But that’s ok, somebody has to do it and it takes experience – and also as you get older the brilliant ideas get harder to come by. I do teach and that I always enjoy immensely.
When I’m feeling inspired or a colleague has an interesting idea I do some sort of calculation in theoretical high-energy particle physics.
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