• Question: Why is your line of science the best?

    Asked by bolt369 to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 15 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by frasersayshi.
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      Andrew Swale answered on 15 Jun 2013:

      I chose to study C. Diff because of it’s translational impact: the work I do can directly help people.

      C. Diff infects approximately 18,000 patients per year in England alone, and it is estimated that worldwide 13 out of every 1000 people who enter the hospital will pick up the bug. As well as affecting the patients themselves, this disease also has a huge impact on the NHS in terms of bed availability and treatment costs.

      My findings will hopefully improve the management/treatment of this disease therefore lessening the burden on both the patients AND the NHS

    • Photo: Katie Greenhalgh

      Katie Greenhalgh answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      An interesting question!
      I wouldn’t say that my line of science is necessarily ‘the best’. I chose to go into this because I found it really interesting and the opportunity for the PhD funding was there. And I have grown even more interested in it as I have worked on it.

      However it is very important, and really interesting, to keep up to date with other lines of science. I am lucky enough to get to lots of talks from other people studying different areas of science which are great. You never know what you will learn from them!!

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