I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Organs Zone. It has scientists studying health and disease in various parts  of our bodies. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Hi lolapopoola and hollsbarkley- thanks for the question and the cool chat session today!
I hope my work as a researcher has helped others. The outcomes of our group’s research may have a direct impact on the lives of people who affected by conditions/disorders such as IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) or Crohn’s disease, bacterial infections but there are other ways in which you can also have a positive impact!
In my work, I train students to help them become scientists. By sharing knowledge in my area of research it will enable more progress – a question can be answered faster if more people work together towards solving it!
I have also presented our findings at research meetings and by sharing our work with other researchers, clinicians – we become more informed and can make better and more precise decisions based on evidence from our research.
Also, being involved in programs such as I’m a scientist also helps because it the public can learn more about what it’s like being a scientist and hopeflly be inspired to follow it as a career path!
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Hi guys! Great question!
The research that my team does have helped a lot of people. In the last 20 years, we have helped more than 50000 people to have a baby when they were having trouble! The research we do has also helped to improve the system so that the babies they get are healthier and there are less risks! It’s a very exciting, and rewarding area of science!
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Hi guys,
Great question. Some scientists are lucky enough to positively affect the lives of others directly! Others that do scientific research (like me) hope that their findings lead to a greater understanding of how things work and in turn can be used to say make a new drug targeted to a specific thing/problem.
Hope that makes sense 🙂
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Hi Lolopopoola and hollsbarkley.
I have shown that raising mice in enriched and stimulating environments makes them smarter and improves their attention and mood. Along with the rest of my team, we are hoping to help people with brain diseases like schizophrenia and autism. Our work is changing the way that people are living and starting up a lot of new discussions about feeding your brain with lots of new things to protect it from failing later in life.
I present these ideas to scientists, to people from the general public and to schools. I have found that people are really interested in what they can do to make their brains healthier and have lots of questions for me.
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Hi guys! I live my life on the assumption that everything that I do affects the lives of other people. Just getting up affects other people (especially my family…though I am sometimes tempted to not get up just to see what would happen). My research has affected people in different ways, but probably the thing that I have done that has affected the most people would be my work in finding news ways to combat heroin addiction. I worked on a new treatment for addiction that completely blocked the effects of heroin, making it pretty pointless for people to inject it (no good feeling=waste of money!). I had lots of families thank me, which felt pretty good.
A lot of the rest of the science that I’ve done, while it affected people for sure, probably didn’t save lives or put families back together. That doesn’t mean it was any less worthwhile though!
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