Question: What is it like to study diseases and damage?

Jenni Tilley answered on 14 Jun 2011:

It’s amazing. I’m constantly blown away by how complicated the body is and how little is actually goes wrong because it’s so well designed.

When it does go wrong though if *really* affects people’s lives and I am really motivated by knowing that my research might help those people in some small way. Also, it helps that I have dodgy knees and the work I’m doing might help fix them one day!