• Question: Who and will your work benefit? And how?

    Asked by ScraicConor to Sudhin, Sergio, Katie, Frances, Diarmuid, Aoife on 9 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by A2spl@shy x N@t2sav, yawn42cup.
    • Photo: Diarmuid Kenny

      Diarmuid Kenny answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      Hopefully I will work on a drug that saves lives.

    • Photo: Aoife Campbell

      Aoife Campbell answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      I hope it will benefit children with epilepsy and related brain diseases. Every new finding will be a step in the right direction, no matter how small it seems

    • Photo: Frances Shiely

      Frances Shiely answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      My work is on clinical trials and improving patient outcomes. So it is helping patients and the public. We focus on drug trials, so new drugs, but also new therapies. New therapies might for example mean, focusing on a regime of physiotherapy and exercise for patients with MS. So clinical trials are not all about drugs.

    • Photo: Sergio Martin Saldana

      Sergio Martin Saldana answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      If everything goes well, our findings will help multiple sclerosis patients in the future

    • Photo: Katie Fala

      Katie Fala answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      Hopefully by studying these bacteria I will be able to identify a new type of antimicrobial that interrupts bacterial communications with oneanother, making them more susceptible to the antibiotics we have at present or will discover in the future.

      Antimicrobial resistance is a big problem and can affect anyone, of any age, in any country. It means that people need to stay in hospital for longer and have a higher chance of dying from resistant infections that they might pick up, as well as jeopardizing food production systems. Microbes becoming resistant to drugs is a natural process, but misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals is accelerating the process. This is why new therapies need to be discovered and developed, alongside more responsible use of the antibiotics that we have currently.

    • Photo: Sudhin Thampi

      Sudhin Thampi answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I am pushing my research to ease the pain of Crohn’s disease patients and provide them a healing route with lesser hospital visits.

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