• Question: Why is your area of scientific discovery important?

    Asked by anon-102748 to Greg, Jen, Laura, Mobeen, Paul on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Paul O'Mahoney

      Paul O'Mahoney answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Well we work on technologies that can help people with skin diseases, so if we make more discoveries in that area then hopefully we can help more patients! Also, incidences of skin cancer seem to be increasing, so anything we can do to help these people would be of great benefit

    • Photo: Greg Melia

      Greg Melia answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      All the scientists in this zone work in fields that are closely tied to medicine and healthcare. We’re either working directly with patients, like Jen, or working in hospital labs, like Laura, or working to design new ways of diagnosing and treating people, like me and Paul. In the past, it was people like us who invented the X-ray machine, the MRI scanner and the linear accelerator that treats cancer in radiotherapy. Hospitals wouldn’t be nearly so effective without those inventions, and we’re working on making the healthcare inventions of the future.

    • Photo: Laura Haworth

      Laura Haworth answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Vascular conditions are on the rise- as more people are presenting with the effects of smoking, diabetes and not leading a healthy lifestyle. Vascular problems are behind the main causes of death in the UK; therefore it is highly important we make new discoveries in imaging, treatment and management for the people affected by vascular problems.

    • Photo: Jen Lowe

      Jen Lowe answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Radiotherapy is important because it is one of the main 3 ways of treating cancer which is an increasingly common disease. Physicists are needed to ensure safe and accurate treatments and to improve treatments for the future.

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