• Question: Have any of your inventions saved anyone's life (permanently)?

    Asked by 589dagg28 to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 9 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      none yet… but that won’t stop me from trying… My project on tuberculosis diagnostics has the best chance, currently 10 million people infected, 1.5 million die every year, if the instrument I am working on gets out as planned in 2018 then lives will be saved!

    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      No, but maybe in the the future they could!

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      I guess so. I do not know the people personally. But when we developed a software tool and ran a trial run in a few hospital, we used to get a weekly report stating the number of patients who were diagnosed in correct time with the help of our software. So based on the diagnosis they were able to treat them in correct time, preventing the progression of disease (in some cases even saving their life) This is a source of motivation for me.

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Not yet, but hopefully one day!
      Like what these guys have said, the quicker you can diagnose a disease, the faster you can treat it, and more lives get saved!

      I hope one day my microchips can be posted out to sick people who don’t know what’s wrong with them and don’t have the money to see a doctor, and then any nasty diseases can be caught earlier

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