• Question: What do you achieve in research?

    Asked by ibzswag to Del, Catherine, John, Krishna, Mo Rassul on 10 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by chloeeee, , , .
    • Photo: Krishna Mohan Surapaneni

      Krishna Mohan Surapaneni answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Dear Choleeee & Ibswag,

      Till now I have been successful in establishing the reasons for liver failure in people who don’t take alcohol. Also, I have studied about the biochemical parameters extensively in an emerging disease called as “Non Alcoholic Fatty Livers Disease and most fatal is – Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)”.
      Also, I have been successful in completing the comparative study of 3 drugs namely pioglitazone, hydroxy citric acid and quercetin” in treating NASH, which is one of the first studies in the literature.

      Now, I am working towards inventing a biochemical marker to diagnose NASH, just like how you diagnose “diabetes” by looking at the “blood sugar” levels, so that we can save many lives.

      Regards,

      Dr. Mohan

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      Catherine Mansfield answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      So far I have helped us achieve a better understanding of how the heart contracts and I have identified some causes of certain types of heart disease. We are now working on new treatments for these diseases which will hopefully help us to save lots of lives.

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      John Foster answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Hi,
      I am working on lung cancer and so far I have managed to make a 3D model of the inside layers of the human lung, this will hopefully help us to learn more about how lung cancer develops. I hope to achieve much more in my future career.

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      Muhammed Rassul answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Generally in research you tend to achieve a greater understanding on the “subject” you are looking at. This could be finding a drug which can help relieve the symptoms of a condition, to discovering something about the structure of the “subject”.

      So far for me I have made my agent, and have found it is not toxic. I have found it works well with the regenerative agent I was working on previously.

    • Photo: Adelle Thrower

      Adelle Thrower answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      I do not work in reaserch- but it sounds super interesting!!

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