• Question: How des your work benifit other people and why does that give you motivation to proceed with it?

    Asked by annawatsonx to Del, Catherine, John, Krishna, Mo Rassul on 10 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Adelle Thrower

      Adelle Thrower answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      My lab deals in diagnosis so I help by getting patients an answer to their symptoms. This diagnosis then means we can treat the patients and either cure or treat their diseases -if that isn’t a good reason to get to work on time I don’t know what is! I am always motivated to do this job!

    • Photo: Catherine Mansfield

      Catherine Mansfield answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      I hope to save lots of peoples lives by developing new treatments and improving our understanding of heart disease.

    • Photo: Muhammed Rassul

      Muhammed Rassul answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      I am hoping my current work can be adapted to look at the brain closer to the cellular level. If this works hopefully it can allow us to detect tumours or even cell loss in the brain a lot earlier than we do now. This would allow us to intervene with these issues earlier. The benefit motivates me, as I have always felt the need to help people, and anything I can do to increase understanding of the brain can be used in the future when neuorlogical problems hit someone I know, as the longer we live the more likely we are to develop a neurological condition.

    • Photo: John Foster

      John Foster answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      I work at Barts Cancer Institute which is closely linked to Barts hospital in London. This means that a lot of research we do leads to new treatments being tested on patients in clinical trials. Seeing how basic research can be “translated” into real treatments that may save lives is a great reason to go to work, even on a Monday morning!

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