• Question: Do you think you can make a difference in the world with your experiments?

    Asked by Diddi to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 7 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by 362dagg45, harry....
    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      I hope so! I hope my research will lead to new developments in cancer diagnosis and treatment

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      Hopefully! I hope they help the development of cheap disease-diagnosing microchips. Then these chips could be posted out to people who are too poor to see a doctor in their country, or live too far away from one, or are too poorly to get out of their house to see one.

      If that doesn’t happen though, they’ll at least help people understand how to better 3D print microscopic things (most 3D printing now is of big stuff)

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      I am really excited by my project to help better diagnose tuberculosis (TB) in India and China. TB still infects around 10 million people mostly in those parts and sadly kills around 1.5 million every year. Diagnostics are currently either inaccurate or very expensive, what I am working on should bring accuracy at a lower price tag, hopefully helping to better diagnose and reduce the numbers above as TB can be easily cured with a antibiotics if detected early enough.

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      I really hope so. I definitely aim to identify the disease at correct stage to aid in prompt treatment.

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