• Question: dose your work help companies make more money?

    Asked by liquidcrystals to Jake, James, Pete, Senga, Simonne on 6 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Simonne Weeks

      Simonne Weeks answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      Great question. As a biomedical scientist I work for a not-for-profit hospital.

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      Pete Gwynne answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      mine does sometimes. hopefully what we’re investigating will become a useful invention, maybe a way to treat a disease or a new way to make a drug. most of the time those inventions will be made and sold by a company, who will make money out of it – annoyingly, i don’t think i’d get any of it.

    • Photo: Senga Robertson

      Senga Robertson answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      Hi again liquidcrystals!

      I hope you both had a nice weekend.

      Part of my job is to find a way to use bacteria to help plants to grow, although I’m doing a PhD with the university part of my PhD involves working for an agricultural research company who will eventually be selling my “superbacteria” to farmers and they will make money from it. Unfortunately, I wont make any money because my research belongs to the University and the company…i’ll need to invent something at home and make myself rich that way. Any ideas?

      Senga 🙂

    • Photo: Jake Langham

      Jake Langham answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      Not really, but I’m not in it for the money, haha 😛

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  • Photo: Livia

    Livia commented on :

    I work at a University, but if we find a target or a drug that may help someone we will need a pharmaceutical industry to invest to make that into a reality. But it could be any industry, but in that sense yes we would.