• Question: What is the craziest drug u have ever made?

    Asked by Laurencet to Anne, Florence, Mark, Neil, Sinead on 15 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Florence McCarthy

      Florence McCarthy answered on 15 Nov 2015:

      We make drugs of all sorts of shapes and sizes in my group, one of our best is a banana shape!

    • Photo: Sinead Balgobin

      Sinead Balgobin answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      I haven’t made a drug yet (I’ve only been a scientist for a couple of years, and it can take a long time!). I did make a molecule that glowed bright yellow in the light, and bright blue in UV light which was really cool!

    • Photo: Neil Day

      Neil Day answered on 17 Nov 2015:

      I was previously involved in development of a ‘non-antibiotic’ antibiotic. it was designed to treat clostridium dificile (a bacterial infection, typically picked up in hospitals) by binding the toxins produced and passing them out of the patients system. It would have been a big breakthrough if we could have got it to work but when we compared it in a clinical trial to more traditional antibiotics, it was not quite as effective and the project was stopped…pity!

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