• Question: what question or challenge where you setting out to address when you started your work

    Asked by emma to Hugh, James, Katherine, Matt, Shannon on 10 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Katherine Benson

      Katherine Benson answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      I set out to see if genetic testing could help in the diagnosis of patients with rare diseases

    • Photo: Hugh J. Byrne

      Hugh J. Byrne answered on 11 Nov 2017:

      In research there are many questions and challenges which change and evolve. We work on developing ways to improve diagnostics, but the same techniques can be used, for example, to test the quality of grapes for making wine! The challenge some years ago was to build the infrastructure of space and equipment to be able to address these challenges.

    • Photo: James Brown

      James Brown answered on 15 Nov 2017:

      When I started some of my current work we were really interested in the fine details of how a cell repairs its DNA and what was in charge of that process- and now we are working on a drug that we hope one day could be used to treat cancer! you never know where you will end up- especially when we have lots of interesting people to work with who have lots of good ideas!

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