• Question: Why are you choosing to spend the money on research of bees when your main expertise is in asthma?

    Asked by ameliajwestern to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 16 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 16 Mar 2013:

      Haha a great question.

      I guess it’s because I really love so many aspects of science, whilst I’m researching asthma I think that people should do something about bees because they seem to be dying off!

      Also this does raise an interesting point, a lot of people in science don’t just stick to one disease (some do definitely do this though). For instance I have a friend who did their PhD in cancer, but then went on to continue in science studying viruses. Some people also change the organism completely, so going from worms to humans!

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