• Question: Would you use the money to produce drugs?

    Asked by captainbieber to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Lori-An Etherington

      Lori-An Etherington answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      No, it cost billions of pounds to produce drugs and the work that I do for the drug company is covered by their funding. We have been asked by the organisers to use the prize money (should we win it) for science communication so I would use it towards making some hands-on exibits for use in schools and science fairs to try and explain how parts of the brain work and how some drugs act on the brain. I am hoping that this idea would encourage people to understand and enjoy learning about the area of science which I work in.

    • Photo: Darren Nesbeth

      Darren Nesbeth answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      No. I would use it to help my iGEM team.

    • Photo: Duncan Hull

      Duncan Hull answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I wouldn’t use the money to produce drugs, I’d like to use the money to build a model of the ribosome – the machinery inside cells that makes proteins.

    • Photo: Deuan Jones

      Deuan Jones answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Well the money for this competition is meant to be used to do public engagement work – in other words showing the public what science is about. For me I would probably use it to produce some materials for a workshop on tropical diseases along with a debate on health in developing countries which could be used in schools.

      btw does your nickname come from you secretly thinking JUstin Bieber is the best pop singer in the world?

    • Photo: Michelle Hudson-Shore

      Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      No I’d use it to set up an interactive website that provides useful and interesting information to help all kinds of people to understand why the search for non-animal scientific methods is important and how it can be done.

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