• Question: What would you say you want to acheive from your research?

    Asked by kezzihatesclifford to Anzy, Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 13 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by queenofdaemos.
    • Photo: David Christensen

      David Christensen answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      The aim of my research is to learn more about what makes embryonic stem cells behave the way they do – particularly on the subject of the way they use nutrients. This is the short-term of what I want to achieve. In the long-term I’d hope that my research will, at least in a small way, contribute to creation of new treatments for diseases.

      Personally, I do this work because I enjoy being in the lab and I’m getting paid to do this! I will finish this project in about a year and then I’d like to go and do something a bit different, somewhere else, so I also hope that my research is good enough so that I will be able to get good jobs in the future.

      I hope this answers your question!

    • Photo: Matthew Tomlinson

      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      I would like for my research to be developed into a device which is used by surgeons to take stem cells from bone marrow and put them back into a patient to help heal broken bones. I think most scientists working in stem cells want their research to be used to help people in some way, be that to live longer or to live healthier, happier lives.

    • Photo: Anzy Miller

      Anzy Miller answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      Hi yeah I also agree with what David and Matt have written.

      Personally I would like to find out something new and interesting with the research I’m doing now – enough that I can publish it and other scientists can read it and work from it.

      But in the long term, the research I do, is just a tiny bit of the bigger puzzle. I think it unlikely that I find something out so incredible that it means a cure for a disease or something – its more like many other scientists will find out lots of other stuff, and when looking at the results altogether we get a better picture of whats happening – and its from that, that we are able to think of ways to help ill people. Its really a very global effort of scientists all over the world in order to learn stuff that can lead to drugs or cures.

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