• Question: do you enjoy working with animals ? and what do you least like about your job?

    Asked by holls to Jared, Frank, Ian, Isabel, Zena on 13 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by my name is GRACE.
    • Photo: Isabel Pires

      Isabel Pires answered on 13 Mar 2015:


      I don’t really work with animals in my job. We mostly use human cancer cells or other cell types as our experimental models.

      What I least like about my job is the endless paperwork (as a lecturer), and how hard it is to get funding to continue to do the since we do (as a scientist).

    • Photo: Zena Hadjivasiliou

      Zena Hadjivasiliou answered on 13 Mar 2015:


      I don’t really work with animals either. Some people I collaborate with do. I am not sure how I’d feel if I was doing it myself but I think it is very important to science and has helped us understand a lot of new things. We always try to treat animals in labs in the best possible way!

      What I like the least about my work is the need and difficulty to get new funding every few years (like Isabel said). It takes a lot of time to write applications for more research money and they are sadly very hard to get too.

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