Question: If you could discover anything in the next 10 years what would you want it to be?

Lilian Hunt answered on 11 Mar 2014:

I would love to find something that will help someone. It sounds simple but that’s why I love science, because what we discover can actually help people. I’m currently looking at developmental disorders – so problems children can be born with that can cause serious problems in their life and sometimes cause them to die young. Many of these happen and the children and their families don’t know why so within the next 10 years I would love to be able to give these families answers to why and how this has happened. What would be amazing would be if that information I discovered was used by other scientists to come up with medication to help these children (that’s not my expert area so I don’t mind someone else discovering that 🙂 )