Lui Holder Pearson talks about his SfTI Science
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A title screen using a semi-transparent overlay in front of an image of a room. In turquoise font, it reads: ‘Lui Holder-Pearson talks about his SfTI research’. Underneath is the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge logo. The grey overlay disappears and we see an empty room with a laptop open on a table and an open doorway. A bearded man in a flannel shirt enters the frame and sits in front of the laptop and starts to type.
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Speaker 1:
Type two diabetes causes severe disability for many Kiwis. Today we meet one of the researchers aiming to make a difference.
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The same man talks to the camera in a close-up centred shot at what appears to be outside of the front door to the house. On the graphic overlay under his face, it reads ‘Lui Holder-Pearson - PhD Candidate’. Switch to a close up of a laptop screen with two graphs on the screen, which then change to two different graphs. The second set of graphs shift sideways across the screen to show more data. The shot returns to Lui as he talks to the camera outside and then to a white and blue hallway of a building that appears sterile and clinical. Lui and a woman walk down the hall towards the camera as they talk to each other.
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Lui Holder-Pearson:
My research consists primarily of a series of mathematical equations that allow me to do predictive modeling. This is pretty much the same as weather forecasting. Except instead of predicting rainfall or temperature, I predict the body's blood glucose and insulin levels. This allows me to modify common diabetes tests, to produce an object of numeric result, and therefore allows me to diagnose type two diabetes significantly earlier than we can with current blood tests.
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The woman from the previous shot now talks to the camera. The graphic overlay beneath reads ‘Dr Anna Hulme - Junior Doctor’. She wears glasses and there is a lanyard and a stethoscope around her neck. Switch to her as she takes medical instruments out of organised plastic compartments onto a trolley. This cuts back to her as she talks to the camera, and then to a close-up of the trolley surface where she places the items onto a blue paper sheet. Then, we return back to her as she talks to the camera.
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Dr. Anna Hulme:
But anyone, if we are able to identify diabetes in an earlier stage, we're able to reduce the complications of the degree of disability that is related to them. Managing the complications of diabetes is a significant proportion of my workload. Diabetes affects all areas of the body. Māori are disproportionately affected. The treatment and management of diabetes and its complications is $1 billion in New Zealand each year. And this money could be defaced flies and other areas such as COVID vaccine rollout, the nurses' pay and better staffing, and access to oncology medications. There's a range of things that we could better use this money for.
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Lui and Anna sit side by side in what appears to be a computer lab. Lui types on a laptop while Anna looks at the screen. Lui talks and gestures towards the screen and Anna nods. He points at something on the bottom corner of the screen and she chuckles.
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Speaker 1:
In addition to frontline clinicians, Lui also collaborates with specialists at the CDHV, engineers at the University of Auckland, and the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury. But there's one key difference to his methods.
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Lui is now inside the entryway of the house from before and speaks to the camera during a close-up shot.
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Lui Holder-Pearson:
Making the entirety of my research open-source provides a platform for global collaboration and allows anyone anywhere to benefit. I can't be true to myself trying to make money from my research while there are hundreds of millions of people dying and suffering from a preventable disease.
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When he finishes speaking the image pauses and a semi-transparent grey overlay covers the screen with a web address in a turquoise font that reads stfichallenge.govt.nz. Below, the phrase “He hiringa hangarau, he oranga tangata” is written in bold font, with “Innovation in technology for the benefit of people” written below that in plain font.