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Asked by Julia to Paul, Mobeen, Laura, Jen, Greg on 7 Mar 2016.
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Greg Melia answered on 7 Mar 2016:
I’m trying to create a new way of detecting cancer, that is cheap, safe, small and portable enough that we can take it out of hospitals and install it in normal doctors clinics. We can scan people for cancer much more often, and detect it a lot earlier, which means that we’ll be able to catch more people before it’s too late.
If it works, I hope that the company I work with will be able to turn it into a product that we can sell. I’ll have to keep working on it to make it better, and supporting questions that our customers have about it.
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Laura Haworth answered on 7 Mar 2016:
The job I am in benefits people every day. It helps identify problems so the patient can get the required treatment they need and hopefully save lives.
Vascular ultrasound is not currently used routinely in the less well developed countries- so if given the opportunity I would love to go and set up clinics and the technology in these countries.
Your job sounds very interesting Greg. How far along are you with this product? -
Paul O'Mahoney answered on 7 Mar 2016:
I am looking at ways to help treat skin cancer, so if we make some new advances, it could potentially help a lot of people. If it works, we would publish the work and try to talk to lots of people about it and get them to do it too!
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Mobeen Ali answered on 9 Mar 2016:
My project is developing a technique to measure the concentration of iron in the brain using MRI. If it works, it will be used to test how affective drugs are at treating or reducing the effects of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This is a very active area of research as there is a lot of funding going into mental illnesses.
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Jen Lowe answered on 15 Mar 2016:
Right now, each bit of work I do generally benefits an individual with cancer. So hopefully that pleases them (and their friends and family) and the government and the hospital who like to have good statistics. developments in our department include a new intra operative radiotherapy probe and replacement linacs – they should be digging a new bunker out the window any day now… We also treat patients as part of clinical trials and when the results are published in journals it may improve cancer treatments across the world.
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