• Question: What would be the best possible outcome of your career as a scientist?

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      Asked by ImIbby to Daniela ?, ☣ Danna, Jonny, Juan, Lindsay on 20 Jun 2016.
      • Photo: Lindsay Robinson

        Lindsay Robinson answered on 20 Jun 2016:

        By the time I’ve finished being a chemist, I’d like to have worked on a drug that is successful in treating a disease. I’m not too fussy about which one! It would all feel like it had been worthwhile then 🙂

      • Photo: Juan Ortiz

        Juan Ortiz answered on 20 Jun 2016:

        Probably making a discovery that makes a positive impact in the life of the people. Easy to say!

      • Photo: Jonathan Hunter

        Jonathan Hunter answered on 20 Jun 2016:

        Be knighted, have an element named after me, have a ‘Hunter’s reaction’ in all the text books, cure a disease, fine out something ground breaking, win a Nobel prize….can I have more?

      • Photo: Danna Gifford

        Danna Gifford answered on 21 Jun 2016:

        Wow this is a hard question! The best possible outcome for me would be to find a strategy to eliminate antibiotic resistance–maybe that might get me a Nobel Prize in medicine! But honestly, if I come to retirement and I’ve produced some solid research, and helped to train the next generation of scientists, I’ll consider it to have been a success.

      • Photo: Daniela Lobo

        Daniela Lobo answered on 21 Jun 2016:

        All I want is to make a change – to have an idea that could change the world, whatever big or small that might sound.

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