Lisa Willemse
Lisa is a science communicator with 15+ years' experience in the fields of regenerative medicine, child development and technology. She launched this blog (first as the Stem Cell Network Blog) in 2009, and served as co-editor until April 2015. She is currently the Director, Communications & Public Affairs for the Stem Cell Network, and has contributed to Motherboard, Science Borealis and the Genome Alberta and Canadian Blood Services blogs. Follow her on Twitter and Medium @WillemseLA.
Posts by: Lisa
A quick and dirty guide to getting your research to the clinic
> Bench to beside is a deceptively simple phrase. Only 15 characters and relatively jargon-free (assuming you know what bench and bedside are referring to), it’s rather easy to drop into documents or presentations without compromising space or time limits. And, perhaps most critically if you happen to be an academic researcher, it’s also very […]
Right Turn: Expose yourself (or your work)
> Looking for something to do this weekend? Got something to say or show about stem cells? How about one of following — each of them gives you an opportunity to win and/or gain exposure: Write an essay on “Why I want to go to ISSCR 2014”. Fellow blogger Paul Knoepfler launched this just yesterday […]
Right turn: If you had leukemia or lymphoma, what would you want to know?
> Julia Pon is a MD/PhD student at the University of British Columbia with an interest in blood cancer. Like many before her, she noticed that the kind of information that is shared with cancer patients is different than what medical students are taught about the disease: one set of information focuses on symptoms and […]
Data is king
> I’m not an academic, but I’ve been to many scientific conferences and read many more papers over the past 10 years or so. I know how important data is in research. I also know how important it is in communications (where visits, likes or shares are currency). Strangely, though, I had not considered its […]