Sauli Vuoti searches for and develops medicines and treatments for cancer. Music has always gone hand in hand. His band, Auringo’s children, records electro-pop, and Vuoti also hosts two popular podcasts.
Sometimes you hear it said that some people seem to have more hours in the day than others. But when it comes to things you love and do out of passion, then you have time.
– Both of them are quite creative processes, making songs and inventing new ones. In both, you have to be creative and think, Vuoti formulated in the Puoli sevent program.
Vuoti already knew at a young age that he wanted to develop new medicines.
Cancer research at the atomic level
– It started with my own mother’s death from breast cancer in 2004. Before that, I wasn’t quite sure whether I would do a dissertation or not. However, I decided to do it and dive into the topic as deeply as I can, so that I could help others, and others wouldn’t have to experience what I experienced myself. However, the mother passed away at a relatively young age.
According to Vuodi, in 2004 there were no new treatments for breast cancer yet, and that partly led him to focus on drug development.
– I noticed that traditional, clinical medicine, where patient care and diagnostics are at the center, is not the channel through which new drugs can be developed or the life of cancer cells can be understood. But even that cellular level was not enough, you have to go to the molecular and atomic level. It’s a small unit that you can use to study them and I wanted to delve into that.
And the result has also been born.
– Of course, it’s hard to say, because some (of the treatments) stay for a while and some for a longer time. But patents are perhaps the measure of this in our field. Some have perhaps led to the fact that we at least have a lot of new information, Vuoti continues.
The band Aurigo’s children collects listens in the streaming service
For his work, Vuoti also visits hospitals to meet cancer doctors and sometimes patients as well. Even on driving trips, something new often happens. Moni Vuot’s song Children of the Sun was born in a car.
– I have never really composed by improvising, but my brain creates melodies, harmonies and snippets of text. I often wind them for a long time in my head, before I go to the instrument myself and start playing them from there.
– Maybe originality and wanting to do things in one’s own way is not what the mainstream wants.
On the other hand, Vuoti reminds that the average listener listens to the radio for about 20 minutes every day.
– Commercial radios certainly know their listeners, and if that listening experience is 20 minutes a day in the car, then there’s no way to bring up familiar artists and new artists as well. Quite a lot of people could listen even longer than its 20 minutes, if they heard something new there.