• Question: If you could cure any disease,which one would you cure?

    Asked by Jake to Hugh, James, Katherine, Matt, Shannon on 6 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by seand085, 875dagk32.
    • Photo: James Brown

      James Brown answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      All pediatric (children) cancers- terrible diseases for young ones.

    • Photo: Katherine Benson

      Katherine Benson answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      The work I’m doing focuses on rare diseases, which are what I’d really like to cure. These rare diseases only affect a very small number of people in the world (5 people out of every 10,000), but all together, as a group, so-called ‘rare’ diseases aren’t so rare. Supposedly, 6% of the European population has a ‘rare’ disease. The FutureNeuro project which was recently funded by SFI aims to diagnose, treat and ultimately cure rare neurological (brain) diseases. I also work on rare kidney diseases as part of my research at RCSI.

    • Photo: Hugh J. Byrne

      Hugh J. Byrne answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      We are working on new techniques to analyse human health on a molecular level, which could lead to a much better understanding of a whole range of diseases, but also how to recognise them at an early stage of development, which often is the key to an effective cure.

    • Photo: Matthew Flood

      Matthew Flood answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      Alzheimer’s disease.
      It is a terrible thing to see somebody lose their memory. In a way, it is like somebody losing their persona – forgetting family, friends, where you live, who you are. It is a disease which will become more common in years to come, so to cure it now would be great.

    • Photo: Shannon Fullbrook

      Shannon Fullbrook answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I would have to agree with James, anything that effects children is heartbreaking so would have to say cure pediatric cancers!

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