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Asked by anon-256944 on 11 Jun 2020.
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Alex Holmes answered on 11 Jun 2020:
I think it’s the case for most researchers that they work on one small part of a bigger picture. So for example, I’m trying to work out how a protein in malaria looks and how it works.
I’m using data other people have generated about malaria, about this particular protein, about how to work out what proteins look like and how to work out how they work to then generate this data. Then my data can be used by another group of scientists that might work on designing medicines against malaria or might use it to understand how malaria works better.
So in the bigger picture the work I’m doing might seem like just a stepping stone, it’s still really big breakthroughs and achievements when the data is generated and used!
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Alena Pance answered on 11 Jun 2020:
Hi Sofia, I aim to get a better understanding of cellular processes. With that we will have knowledge of how things work and that would facilitate identifying the problem when something goes wrong, in a disease for example. Once we know what the problem is, we can develop tools to prevent it or overcome it. In that sense, I have worked on cancer and I am now working on malaria. I don’t think that any one person will find the ultimate answers, but we all contribute bits of knowledge that will collectively help us get there.
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Nicole Wheeler answered on 12 Jun 2020:
I work on antimicrobial resistance, and I hope to help get us to a point where we can identify this as it appears, using the DNA of bacteria and artificial intelligence to understand where it has come from, how it spreads and which interventions will be best for eliminating it. I hope this will result in fewer deaths and time spent unwell in the future. I’ve had the opportunity to work on a few projects developing this idea and am hoping to make some real progress on this in the coming years 🙂
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