• Question: does your work help the planet?

    Asked by grace14 to Michelle, Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by neigh, jafella22, ostrichman.
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      Lori-An Etherington answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Hi, I suppose my work doesnt actually affect the actual planet but I hope it is helping people on it. I am involved in the early stages of drug development looking at drugs that might help people with learning and memory problems in the future. Conditions such as Alzheimers affect peoples memory and there are more than 400,000 people with this condition in the UK alone.
      Hope this is what you meant in your question, let me know if not

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      Darren Nesbeth answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Yes, it helps the pharmaceutical industry lower its carbon foot print.

    • Photo: Deuan Jones

      Deuan Jones answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I hope that the work me and my colleasgues do will result in better treatments for diseases in poorer areas of the world and better ways of diagnosing disease. Don’t know if you’d call that helping the planet, but I think the people are pretty important too.

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