Camila Londono
Dr. Camila Londoño is the Director of Ryerson University’s Science Discovery Zone, an incubator focused on people and early-stage ideas and ventures. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and her BASc in the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto. Camila first began contributing to Signals while completing an internship at CCRM in 2015.
Posts by: Camila
Making a case for research investment in Canada: Can we drive reverse brain drain now?
Brain drain was a real problem for Canada in the late ‘90s. A study by Statistics Canada found that twice as many post-secondary professors and teachers went to the United States than came to Canada in that period. This untenable situation—in which education and infrastructure investments in people were lost through decreased funding, higher taxes […]
Rewarding Excellence – Awardees at TMM2016
The feature session of the fifth Till & McCulloch Meetings shone a light on two fantastic researchers, Huijuan Yang and Molly Shoichet, both of whom received awards for their outstanding work. Huijuan Yang, a PhD student in the Nagy lab at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto, received the inaugural Drew […]
Making a case for investing in Canada revisited: Prioritizing our strengths
Four years ago, I wrote a blog post about Canadian brain drain, seeking to convince readers (though arguably not very well) that, with the right policies, Canada could be the intellectual beneficiary of increasingly intolerant and anti-science political climates in our two closest allies, the United States and the United Kingdom. At the time, the […]