• Question: Does your reaserch save lives? If so how many?

    Asked by Snackbar to Carmen, Daniel, Laura, Noel, Steph on 18 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Noel Carter

      Noel Carter answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      Hi the research I am involved in has made more organs available for transplantation. I am not sure exactly how many but maybe 60-80 additional transplants have come about because of work our group has done. I didn’t do the surgery though

    • Photo: Stephanie Dyson

      Stephanie Dyson answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      I don’t work on a life threatening disease but I do work on a disease that can dramatically affect peoples standard of life. The disease I work on is called Crohn’s disease and it is caused when the body starts attacking what is thought to be good bacteria in the stomach. Half a million people in the UK have Crohn’s disease and it can make you very sick indeed. If my work can be used to find a new potential treatment then it will definitely improve the lives of those people!!

      Steph

    • Photo: Carmen Denman

      Carmen Denman answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      Hi Snackbar,

      Can’t quantify it but let’s say I AIM to save lives, but I am a basic researcher involved in the design and constructions of novel vaccines, and not involved in the testing and approval of the vaccines after I have made them. I will be ecstatic if I get a vaccine into humans in my lifetime that I helped make, the diseases I study are to make vaccines to protect soldiers in conflict zones that’s could be exposed to intentional release of biological agents. This topic is escapist dear to my heart as I have a brother serving in the army.

      Cheers!

      Carmen

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