• Question: Which are your goals as a scientist

    Asked by Ana María to Tom, Paul, Natasha, Ildiko, Ester, Eoin on 7 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by SashaS.
    • Photo: Ester Gil Vazquez

      Ester Gil Vazquez answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I want to help curing cancer! It is a disease that has always scared the hell of me, possibly because I’ve seen its effects and what it carries. I just want to stop people suffering from it. I am aware that this is a very difficult task to do by myself, but I am pretty sure that the scientific community as a whole will get there! and I want to contribute to that 🙂

    • Photo: Natasha Myhill

      Natasha Myhill answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      As a scientist, I would love to be involved with improving cancer treatment (I doubt that we will be able to find a ‘cure’ any time soon – maybe one of you will become a scientist and manage it!) so a realistic goal for me is to be involved in developing a therapy that works for a lot of people 🙂

    • Photo: Paul McKeegan

      Paul McKeegan answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      I want to help understand why we are, across the world, getting more infertile and to be able to reduce that trend. I also want to understand how we can pass on conditions and behaviours that are not traditionally linked to genetic to our children through our diets and environments. You are what your parents ate! And I would like to help raise public awareness of fertility and disease issues too.

    • Photo: Ildiko Somorjai

      Ildiko Somorjai answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      I am really interested in understanding why it is that some animals can grow back a new arm or eyeball…and we can’t. As far as our genetic makeup is concerned, we are not THAT different from a salamander actually (I know, hard to believe, but it’s true!) but for some reason we have genes and proteins that for example make it difficult to repair a spinal cord injury and they seem to have no problems at all….but more generally my goal is to try to learn as much as possible about how the biological world works, and to transmit this enthusiasm to other people.

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