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Asked by Ethan11 to Ross, Aimee, Gemma, Hussain, Robert on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by kaiden.
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Ross King answered on 9 Nov 2015:
The most dangerous disease I’ve ever studied isn’t very exotic, but it is very important. I used to study what happens when you get high blood pressure and what can go wrong as a result. If you have high blood pressure, you are more likely to go on to get more serious diseases, like heart attack and stroke. Diseases like heart attack and stroke kill the most amount of people in the UK and other developed countries. So it is very important to understand how these diseases work!
I am also very interested in understanding what happens to our bodies as we get older. Getting older means you are more likely to get a wide range of different diseases. If I can work out what changes happen as we get older, maybe we can make new drugs or treatments to help stop diseases happening that come as you age.
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Hussain Jaffery answered on 11 Nov 2015:
I have studied and learned about a lot of diseases, but I have actually worked on helping to find a possible cure for some them too, including osteoarthritis, a disease where the cartilage in your joints starts to wear down, and ovarian cancer, a particularly nasty type of cancer.
I would have to say that the cancer research was probably on the most dangerous disease, because not only is cancer a whole group of diseases that we don’t have the cure to yet, but it also affects 1/3 of the world’s population.
Other diseases which I have looked into at the lab are osteoporosis (bone thinning), rheumatoid arthritis (immune system attacks joints and bones), osteopetrosis (bones become too hard, like rocks – a bad thing). All of these are important diseases to solve and I am lucky to have understood them and helped make these problematic diseases more curable. 🙂
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