• Question: What would you do if your Cancer research was wrong and you ended up harming people?

    Asked by sorchandanniirock to Mariam, Leo, Jo, Iain, Gioia on 19 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      There are very stringent rules governing the translation of research from the lab to the clinic, and everything that is tried on patients has to be shown to be safe.

    • Photo: Mariam Orme

      Mariam Orme answered on 19 Jun 2010:

      I don’t think that would happen. If my research leads to the development of new drugs, those drugs will be tested extensively to make sure they’re safe. In the very unlikely event that something did go wrong and people got harmed, I would be devastated though.

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