Nobel Prize worthy ideas in pictures
Every year Nobel laureates and junior scientists meet in the Bavarian town of Lindau. The young researchers have different opinions on what challenges are most pressing in science. They've illustrated them for DW.
Making science visible
Nobel laureates and junior scientists sometimes have a hard time explaining their work. DW's Hannah Fuchs thought it might be easier to have the young participants draw their ideas of Nobel Prize worthy, urgent goals in science. Here's one of the "artists": Paolo Mazzula.
Paolo Mazzula, Italy: Ageing research
Paolo Mazzula's area of expertise is dementia. He thinks about what he should draw for a long time, saying that for him as a doctor, it's not all about healing, treating or research. "My foremost goal is it to strengthen health and to prevent illnesses that can potentially be averted. Ageing successfully mentally and physically - that would have to be it!"
Anowara Begum from Bangladesh
Anowara Begum is 23 years old and studied public health at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. She has traveled around her home country extensively, but this stay in Lindau is her very first international trip. Science to her is learning new things every day and "that's really exciting."
Education is important
Anowara Begum comes up with several things at once that need attention, especially in Bangladesh and Asia: malnutrition on one side, obesity of people who don't care about their health on the other. "People are often ignorant," Begum says, also when it comes to infections and sexually transmitted diseases.
Luca Pellegrinet from Great Britain
Luca Pellegrinet is a molecular biologist working in cancer research. His interest in the inner workings of things started when he was a little kid. "I took apart everything that I could get my hands on." His never-ending curiosity has stayed with him - that's why he ended up in science.
Understanding cancer
Luca Pellegrinet draws two cells. "It isn't easy to understand what's going on in there," he says, comparing the cells to maps with numerous bus lines, train stops and streets. "There's usually one central station, a certain transit point - and that's what regular and cancer cells have in common." Pellegrinet says that understanding what happens at this point is important for understanding cancer.
Arnaud L'Omelette from Mauritius
Arnaud L'Omelette is the sole representative of the island state in the Indian Ocean at the Lindau Conference. For the 29-year-old, science means "finding new ways that make our daily life easier."
A new and better lifestyle
Obesity, diabetes, hypertension: "Those are the biggest problems in my country," Arnaud L'Omelette says. They came to Mauritius when the national economy took off in the 1990s, bringing along a new, unhealthy lifestyle. "And it would be so easy to change that!" L'Omelette says. "Healthy nutrition and enough exercise would do the trick."
Anna Oszmiana, Poland: understanding the immune system
Anna Oszmiana currently lives in Great Britain and is a researcher at the University of Manchester. Her area of expertise is immunology. She has drawn two cells. The left one is infected with a virus, which the second has picked up. "It's protecting itself!" Oszmiana says. The communication between cells is one of the most exciting and important research areas for her.