Question: what diseases do you study

Damian Mole answered on 19 Jun 2018:

Hi. I study inflammation – which is the body’s response to injury or infection. I focus quite a lot of my research on acute pancreatitis – which is inflammation in the pancreas glad in the abdomen – that can spread to cause problems with organ function in the rest of the body. Some people with acute pancreatitis need to be treated in intensive care, and of those people who do need intensive care, one in five will die. So it’s pretty serious. The things we discover in acute pancreatitis will be helpful to combatting inflammation generally – we hope!