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Asked by Kristein to Jonathan, Kellie, Kevin, Melissa, Stephanie on 25 Apr 2016.
Question: Have you made a medication that helps humans? If so, what is it?
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Kevin Baker answered on 25 Apr 2016:
I have no made a medication, yet! My research is kind of the step before medications are made.
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Jonathan Jackson answered on 25 Apr 2016:
I don’t personally make medications, but we work closely with researchers and companies that do, in order to see whether the medicines work for people who are at risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease. We give the medicine to people and monitor them very closely. If the tests we develop look promising, we get to say whether or not the medicine works!
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Stephanie Moon answered on 25 Apr 2016:
No, but maybe I will someday! Right now I’m trying to figure out if there are things we can make a medication to correct in a diseased cell, but it might be another researcher that actually makes a medication to do it.
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Kellie Jaremko answered on 25 Apr 2016:
Hi Kristein,
I don’t make new medications but I do try and study which medications work best for which people and type of pain. This means we can give them relief faster instead of trying many things first that won’t work as well for them. Someday maybe my research can be used to design new better pain medications.
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Melissa Wilson Sayres answered on 26 Apr 2016:
I have not made a medication. We are starting a new project to analyze the DNA sequence of the Gila monster. There is a peptide in the Gila monster saliva that is being synthesized to treat Type-II diabetes, and we hope to understand the evolution of this peptide more.
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