Why do you think your job is important?

Question: Why do you think your job is important?

Asked by robinsonz to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research.
- Darren Nesbeth answered on 18 Jun 2010:
  
  It feeds directly into what lots of other people do to improve health and wealth.
- Lori-An Etherington answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  I find my job rewarding because being involved in the early stages of drug development there is the possibility that I may be involved in helping to characterise a new medicine which could be potentially used to help may people in the future.
- Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 24 Jun 2010:
  
  I think that my job is important because millions of animals are used in experiments every year and my job gives me the chance to help to try to replace those animals with non-animal alternatives. When alternatives are found it tends to be as a by-product of another experiment. So the work that I do is importnat in working with other scientists to encourage them to actively look for alternatives rather than wait for them to be found by someone else. It’s also useful for science in general because I do alot of work on helping scientists to design their experiments better so that they not only use fewer animals but they get more information from their experiemnts which makes their results stronger. Overall if we can find alternatives that better predict how humans respond to disease and drugs it will result in new, safer drugs being available to everyone much sooner.

Question: Why do you think your job is important?

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