How can your work be applied in real life?

Question: How can your work be applied in real life?
- Keywords:
  life,
  work
Asked by anon-196670 to Sebastian, Paddy, Lee, Jennifer, Fiona, Eleanor on 12 Mar 2019.
- Sebastian Cosgrove answered on 12 Mar 2019:
  
  My work is hopefully going to be applied in the synthesis of important chemicals, including drugs and agrochemicals. Recently, an enzyme that was discovered in the group I work in was the taken by a multinational pharmaceutical company and applied on an industrial scale to make a HIV drug! This is what we aim for most of our work, to be able to be used in a productive way by industry!
- Fiona Scott answered on 12 Mar 2019:
  
  My research is already being used by other researchers. My chemical probes are tested by biologists in Brazil and once I finish my project I hope to release information about them to the wider scientific community. They can use my probe molecules to work out what job my kinase enzyme does and all being well that might lead to a new cancer drug one day.
- Eleanor Senior answered on 12 Mar 2019:
  
  My work can be used to (hopefully) create a working vaccine which can then be used to treat lots of cows
- Jennifer Harris answered on 14 Mar 2019:
  
  Policy is automatically applied to real life as it addresses challenges in the UK’s healthcare and research landscape. From the work I do on clinical trial set-up to patient involvement in clinical research, I work on real-life issues relating to science and health.

Question: How can your work be applied in real life?