WEEK 2

WEEK 2

  During the week we received an email from Nutriplus. What we all first thought was spam mail turned out to be the mock company that Barry had set up for us to be a part of, this is the company that our Nutraceutical products will be under. The email contained a memo informing us to make ourselves into groups of three, with the aim of being diverse enough to deal with all future problems of creating a product. We settled on our group and so the journey of making a product began.

One of our members suffers from Crohns’ disease and pointed out that there is no specific product for prevention or treatment of it. This was the start of our product. We weren’t 100% what the product would be, but we had decided that we would aim it in the direction of Crohns’ disease. on Friday we meet Barry to discuss the idea, he helped to focus the aim of our research, which is really the hardest part of the whole thing. It’s hard to find an answer to something when you don’t really know what you are looking for. The past week has been spent trying to understand Chrons’ disease but now we must focus on the work that has been done as a treatment for it. In the lecture class we were given a brief overview of the bioprocess on a broad unspecific view. Before the lecture had started I had a basic understanding of it all; the use of manipulated natural material to produce a medicinal product. But the lecture shows that it is a whole lot more diverse than I had perceived. I actually felt a bit bewildered by the sheer size of the industry and the complexity of the process. We’re hardly expected to know enough about all this to produce a product. The reality of having to do some study/research around the lectures has come to the front this week.