• Question: How would you like your work to impact people in the future?

    Asked by _james_ to Anne, Thomas, Arthur, Rose, Ruhina on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Steph, EmilyP, hannah.
    • Photo: Anne Canning

      Anne Canning answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I really hope that the field as a whole, regenerative medicine, is successful at helping cure and prevent diseases through the use of stem cells. It still has a long way to go before it could be widely available, lots more research has to happen, but its definitely making massive progress. There are more stem cell/ tissue engineering based products in clinical trials than before, so hopefully some will be successful and will have a real impact on peoples health!

    • Photo: Rose Simnett

      Rose Simnett answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Hi!
      As I am investigating the properties of the new polymers I make, it is difficult to know what applications they might go into. If a polymer forms films, it could go into paints, if it is adhesive it could go into glue. Some of the polymers I make can also be used as drug delivery system. I am hopeful that I will be able to improve the polymer properties for a wide range of applications 🙂

    • Photo: Ruhina Miller

      Ruhina Miller answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I hope that I will have provided some improved understanding as to why household/personal care products freeze in the cold weather, so we can begin to develop measures to prevent this. By doing so we can avoid customers being unhappy if their e.g. shampoo doesn’t work or look how they want it to 🙂

    • Photo: Arthur Wilkinson

      Arthur Wilkinson answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      I study composites (polymers with carbon fibres) which can help reduce carbon dioxide emissions (by reducing the weight of aircraft and cars), make aircraft more comfortable and increase safety (formula 1 cars have become much safer since they started using carbon fibre composites).

    • Photo: Thomas Farrugia

      Thomas Farrugia answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      I think I’d like my current research to help make more complex molecules (e.g antibiotics) via fairly “green” approaches i.e reactions at low temperature and using water as a solvent.

      In terms of other future work I think it would be really cool to work on those kinds of technologies that are a bit disruptive – google Xlabs style!

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