• Question: What was the most life changing discovery you have ever made

    Asked by anon-320400 on 14 Mar 2022.
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      Veselina Georgieva answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Excellent question thank you. I think you can read this question in two ways. For me, the life-changing discovery was that the future of my family is more important. I will always have work, it is more important to have a family!
      On the other hand, the work-related life-changing discovery is that I have created a material that can help drug delivery to a certain point of the human body.

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      Mark Ridgill answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Good question – Most people in drug discovery will never discover a new drug but their work might be an example to someone or inspire others to achieve things.

      I had the pleasure to make the first example of a class of compounds which was tested in the clinic – it was great to be part of the story. Unfortunately although the compound was safe it didn’t help patients.

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      Amit Vernekar answered on 15 Mar 2022:

      Engineering a material to behave like an enzyme is the important discovery as far as biomimetic and bioinspired chemistry is concerned

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      Sophie Strickfuss answered on 16 Mar 2022:

      I can’t say I have discovered anything myself. I contribute to the development of new medicines, together with hundred of other people working in discovery, process chemistry, formulation, manufacturing, clinical sciences, statistics, and many more! The result of all that work is still something new, a new treatment for a disease that couldn’t be treated before.

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      Graeme Barker answered on 18 Mar 2022:

      Great question. I’m normally very excited about whatever is the most recent research my lab group have been doing! In terms of outside impact though, probably a new method for making molecules common to anti-Alzheimer’s and anti-Parkinson’s drugs that I worked on as a PhD student.

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