{"id":1985,"date":"2019-04-25T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:24:31","slug":"convincing-my-daughter-that-our-research-in-malaria-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/2019\/04\/25\/convincing-my-daughter-that-our-research-in-malaria-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Convincing my daughter that our research in malaria matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1181\" height=\"660\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2008 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/files\/2019\/04\/Lead_Aubrey_Amelie.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On World Malaria Day, Dr Aubrey Cunnington&#8217;s daughter spends the day at his lab to learn how his team&#8217;s research is contributing to tackling malaria.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>25 April is a special day in my calendar this year for two reasons. First, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-malaria-day\/world-malaria-day-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Malaria Day<\/a> \u2013 a chance for malaria researchers and many others to unite to raise awareness of this dreadful disease which kills over 400,000 people every year. Second, it is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/daughtersandsonstowork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take Your Daughter to Work Day<\/a>\u201d for my 13-year old\u2019s school, and she has chosen to spend the day with me at Imperial College London. I\u2019m flattered but I\u2019m also worried, because she can be my harshest critic, and on World Malaria Day I want to convince her (and everyone else) that my research is making a difference against malaria.<\/p>\n<p>So what will it take to impress my 13-year old daughter, and perhaps give her the confidence and inspiration for a career? Looking for help, I ask my research team how they would explain their work to a 13-year old. Despite worried expressions, they are all up for giving it a go.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2019\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/files\/2019\/04\/Sophie_profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Sophie tries first. She\u2019s an Immunology Master\u2019s student, brimming with enthusiasm, and the newest addition to our team. Sophie is using special fluorescence microscopes to look at how malaria infection causes damage to the brain, lung and kidneys. When the human body tries to fight against malaria parasites some molecules are released from white blood cells which can damage human organs as well as the parasites. Sophie is looking at a molecule called Matrix Metallopeptidase 8 (MMP8 for short) which she thinks might be harmful and investigating whether it is found at the sites of organ damage. \u00a0If she\u2019s right, she says \u201cthis could be the foundation for developing better treatments to stop people dying from malaria.\u201d It\u2019s early days but her results are already looking exciting, and with striking pictures showing the devastating effects malaria can have on body organs, it\u2019s hard to imagine that my daughter won\u2019t be impressed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2020\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/files\/2019\/04\/Claire-profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Next up, Claire explains her project. Claire is a sky-diving, comic-loving, hardcore computer whizz \u2013 also known as a bioinformatician. She has a PhD scholarship from the <a href=\"https:\/\/epsrc.ukri.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council<\/a>, which doesn\u2019t sound like it should have any connection to malaria at all. And my daughter isn\u2019t wildly enthusiastic about computers. Claire explains, \u201cMost malaria deaths occur in children, but in fact malaria illness can range from mild symptoms to life threatening issues, sometimes progressing rapidly between them. We\u2019d like to be able to predict whether a child will progress from mild to severe illness, so we know which patients benefit from the most intense treatment. I\u2019m trying to find a way to predict a patient\u2019s progress from the genes being turned on and off in their blood. It\u2019s like making \u2018maps\u2019 of what their illness will be like in the future.\u201d Claire can only do this by using high-performance computers to make millions of complex calculations on which the predictions are based. Hopefully my daughter will appreciate how hours spent learning coding can be transformed into an approach to save thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2021\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/files\/2019\/04\/Athina-profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Finally it\u2019s Athina\u2019s turn. Athina has just received her PhD, and has used just about every piece of high-tech equipment in our labs over the last three years to study the parasites that cause malaria and the human body\u2019s response to them. That in itself should impress a curious 13-year old, but then she begins with the staggering facts that motivate our work, \u201cMalaria has killed about half of all the people that ever lived and has been around as long as human kind. Young children and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable\u201d. Then she describes how we use cutting-edge \u201cdiscovery science\u201d approaches to look at tens of thousands molecules in the human blood and in the parasites causing malaria, to see which ones are most strongly associated with severe illness. Then the exciting part begins, \u201cdoing experiments to target specific molecules and find out if they really have a role in disease\u201d. If they do, then they may be the key to new treatments to stop malaria in its tracks. This effort involves not just our group at Imperial, but research partnerships in The Gambia, Ghana, Malawi, and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m confident that these explanations will convince my daughter that we\u2019re working hard to beat malaria, but I\u2019m also hopeful she\u2019ll see how exciting it can be to be part of a global research community with this common goal. I also hope she\u2019ll be inspired by my amazing research team, currently all women, all bright, imaginative and committed to beating malaria.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, having found out how great my team are, and what important work they do, she\u2019ll want to know if I do anything worthwhile. Unfortunately, whatever I say, I\u2019m pretty sure she\u2019s already concluded that I sit around all day drinking coffee, checking emails and telling other people what to do \u2013 just like at home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1181\" height=\"660\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/files\/2019\/04\/Cunnington-team.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What did my daughter think of her day spent at Imperial?<\/h2>\n<p>Reflecting on the day, she said: &#8220;I had several take away points from my day spent at the lab. My Dad not only drinks coffee but also does fascinating research, much to my surprise. His colleagues are really friendly and smart. A real highlight was trying out some of the lab equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/a.cunnington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Aubrey Cunnington<\/a> (<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acunningID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\">@acunningID<\/span><\/a>) is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the <span id=\"titlepart5\">Department of Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at St Mary&#8217;s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Following the launch of the Faculty of Medicine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/medicine\/about-us\/faculty-leadership\/department_changes_2019-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reorganised academic structure<\/a> on 1 August 2019, this post was recategorised to<em><strong> Department of Infectious Disease<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On World Malaria Day, Dr Aubrey Cunnington&#8217;s daughter spends the day at his lab to learn how his team&#8217;s research is contributing to tackling malaria.\u00a0 25 April is a special day in my calendar this year for two reasons. 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