INTERVIEWS WITH N. SPOONER & J. RUDGE


NS: I agree with that James, and building on that I think we’re going to see more patient- centric sampling where the patients are going to start taking a little bit more control of taking samples for themselves and finding out data about themselves that they will then take to the doctor to be interpreted for treatment and we can start diagnosing disease earlier, which gives us a better chance of curing disease.


JR: and also the fact that now – take cancer for example – cancer isn’t a disease, it’s a collection of many different types of diseases, and scientists and medical scientists within the field are actually realising there are so many different forms of a disease and the really exciting thing about the technology moving forwards is that we can identify the specific versions of disease and then medicine can be personalized for that.


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NS: one last thing I’d like to see as well, is as we get more adoption of these techniques, is looking at a more simplified, integrated workflow. At the moment, the bioanalyst is possibly at the wrong end of this technology – they find it hard and don’t really see the benefits. Hopefully we’ll see the technologies move along and we’ll see some better integrated analytical approaches that will help give good quality data in a more simple way.


JR: as technology is miniaturizing at a rapid pace, then doctors’ surgeries will have generic analysers on the benchtop where a sample can be analysed there and then, or at least given an idea and then be sent off – so it’s a very exciting future.


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