• Question: What is your goal what are you working for?

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      Asked by anon-290185 on 15 Mar 2021.
      • Photo: Jesko Koehnke

        Jesko Koehnke answered on 15 Mar 2021:

        We try to understand how bacteria make antibiotics. And we have started to work on ways to use the tools that bacteria use for our own purposes, to find new antibiotics etc.

      • Photo: Marcel Jaspars

        Marcel Jaspars answered on 15 Mar 2021:

        I am trying to find new treatments for diseases such as cancer, infection, inflammation and alzheimer’s and epilepsy. For the last two we have compounds that work in mice, and other scientists (medicinal chemists and pharmacologists) are trying to turn these compounds into drugs.

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        Philip Camp answered on 15 Mar 2021:

        To do something constructive, and to enjoy myself while doing it.

      • Photo: Andrew Parrott

        Andrew Parrott answered on 15 Mar 2021:

        Trying to discover ways to measure processes (such as making a particular chemical product, e.g. hand sanitiser) which can work in real time. This allows you to then finely control the process and make it more efficient – so that it generates less waste and uses less energy.

      • Photo: Martin McCoustra

        Martin McCoustra answered on 16 Mar 2021:

        The bottom line in my research is to try and find out aspects of the present day universe work… and how chemistry has an important role in that. But I also enjoy training new researchers and explaining my work to the public.

      • Photo: Isolda Romero-Canelon

        Isolda Romero-Canelon answered on 16 Mar 2021:

        I am trying to use metals to develop new drugs for cancer. With the new drugs I hope to give another chance to those patients who cannot be treated with the current drugs

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