I really really hope the work I’m doing is going to save lives. The overall goal of medical research is to help prevent, treat and understand disease to reduce suffering and save lives. What I’m doing is a really really small part of this process. There are lots of pieces to the puzzle that need to be put together.
I look at research as having three stages in the process of helping fight disease. There are those who research processes inside our cells. There is still a really lot we don’t know about these processes and this research helps understand how our cells work and which processes are important in disease. Second there are those who look at the research on cell processes and come up with new drugs and their targets and also markers of early disease stages for diagnostic tests. And third there are people who put into place the new drugs and tests and run clinical trials.
You can see its a very long process to making a difference with medical research. I consider myself as one of the people at the start of this process and I really want the discoveries I’m making to be useful for the next step. One way I make sure of this is to have very clear defined goals in my research and always relate my results to the implications it has on cell process and disease. Right one one of the genes I’m working on, I believe is important for cell growth and may play a role in aggressive cancers and I believe understand how this gene is regulated will provide clues as to why these cancers are worse than others.
and at the end of the day, saving lives is what motivates me to make new discoveries and keep going when things get tough!
Thank you for your interest – it is so nice see people shares my passion in science. My research has not saved any lives yet but I’m on a path leading to save millions of people’s lives in the near future. I’m working cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory diseases which are the No.1 cause of death (among all causes of deaths) in the world. Millions of people dying every year due to cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately there are no effective treatment methods because we don’t fully understand how they work. Therefore my primary goal is to unravel the mechanism of cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory diseases first to understand how they work then to develop efficient therapeutics which will save many lives. And I will believe I will be successful with support of passionate people like you. Even showing a little interest provides us a big support in our way. So thanks again for your question.
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Hi queenoflight123! Thanks for your question.
I really really hope the work I’m doing is going to save lives. The overall goal of medical research is to help prevent, treat and understand disease to reduce suffering and save lives. What I’m doing is a really really small part of this process. There are lots of pieces to the puzzle that need to be put together.
I look at research as having three stages in the process of helping fight disease. There are those who research processes inside our cells. There is still a really lot we don’t know about these processes and this research helps understand how our cells work and which processes are important in disease. Second there are those who look at the research on cell processes and come up with new drugs and their targets and also markers of early disease stages for diagnostic tests. And third there are people who put into place the new drugs and tests and run clinical trials.
You can see its a very long process to making a difference with medical research. I consider myself as one of the people at the start of this process and I really want the discoveries I’m making to be useful for the next step. One way I make sure of this is to have very clear defined goals in my research and always relate my results to the implications it has on cell process and disease. Right one one of the genes I’m working on, I believe is important for cell growth and may play a role in aggressive cancers and I believe understand how this gene is regulated will provide clues as to why these cancers are worse than others.
and at the end of the day, saving lives is what motivates me to make new discoveries and keep going when things get tough!
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Thank you for your interest – it is so nice see people shares my passion in science. My research has not saved any lives yet but I’m on a path leading to save millions of people’s lives in the near future. I’m working cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory diseases which are the No.1 cause of death (among all causes of deaths) in the world. Millions of people dying every year due to cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately there are no effective treatment methods because we don’t fully understand how they work. Therefore my primary goal is to unravel the mechanism of cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory diseases first to understand how they work then to develop efficient therapeutics which will save many lives. And I will believe I will be successful with support of passionate people like you. Even showing a little interest provides us a big support in our way. So thanks again for your question.
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