• Question: How will your research affect people? If so how many and in what way?

    Asked by mark to Alex, Antonio, Christina, Martin, Nicola on 8 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Martin O'Halloran

      Martin O'Halloran answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      This is a great question.

      In my work, our goal is:
      1. Create new devices to improve medical treatment
      2. Create new companies based on these devices to provide jobs and taxes to the Irish economy.

      One device we built is for imaging the kidneys of babies. The current imaging method used in the hospitals is very expensive and very painful to the babies. We’re replacing that old system (which uses dangerous x-rays) with a really low cost and totally pain free method to image the kidneys.

      This will be great for the babies themselves, and their parents. Since the device is much cheaper, it will be good for the hospital and taxpayer as well.

    • Photo: Nicola Greene

      Nicola Greene answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Thanks for the question!

      I hope that my work does affect people, the aims I have are to
      (i) improve health and productivity of Kenyans through provision of good sanitation (it is a sad reality that diseases as basic as diarrhoea can still lead to death here or days lost from school/work)
      (ii) Improve the profits of business owners so that they are more encouraged to serve people on a lower income and make products/services available to them.

      Nicola

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