• Question: How relevant will your study be in 5 years?

    Asked by jillpf to Adam, Eleanor, Sinead on 21 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Sinead Cullen

      Sinead Cullen answered on 21 Nov 2013:

      Hi Jill,

      I think the area of nanomedicine will be more relevant in 5 years time as there is still a lot of work to be done in the area, but it will have a huge affect on the healthcare system and will bring about a more personalised medicine approach which means that patients will be specific for them and will not be receiving general antibiotics which is leading to antibiotic resistance which is a major problem worldwide now.

      Hope this helps 🙂

    • Photo: Adam Murphy

      Adam Murphy answered on 21 Nov 2013:

      Hey Jill, cool question!

      Nanotechnology is just going to get more and more important, and the amount of scientists converting to the field is huge!

      In medicine I think it’s going to be so important, both for detecting diseases earlier and for detecting with tiny amounts, so it can be done in your doctor’s office, so you don’t have to go to a hospital for an icky blood test!

      I hope my research will have a big impact, but even if my research just helps someone down the line make a big breakthrough, that would be amazing!

    • Photo: Eleanor Holmes

      Eleanor Holmes answered on 21 Nov 2013:

      The in depth study of nanotechnology is fairly new (although the ideas and use of nanoparticles has been going on for ages) so I hope I will still be relevant in 5 years.

      The main thing to do is to keep up with the publications in the next few years and even after we graduate. My boss spend a lot of his day reading up on various areas of science so he can stay on top of things years after he completed his PhD. He doesn’t go into the lab much anymore. But he knows a lot more than me about current research.

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