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Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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Right Turn: Commercializing Living Therapies podcast

Author: Stacey Johnson, 11/12/21

In 2016 I shared a list of podcasts that I thought Signals’ readers might enjoy. I think it’s definitely time to update that list, and I’m excited to tell you about a new podcast that’s about to launch: Commercializing Living Therapies with CCRM. Commercializing Living Therapies with CCRM will feature cell and gene therapy industry […]

Right Turn: Are we getting any closer to a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease?

Author: Stacey Johnson, 09/24/21

Let’s play a game. If you could choose, what would be your superpower? Invisibility is a popular one, as are super strength, the ability to read minds, and time travel (but we know that messing with time can be dangerous). This list of the best superpowers of all time ranks them in the context of […]

Right Turn: STEM internships, co-ops and jobs for students

Author: Stacey Johnson, 09/10/21

Like everyone I know, I’m working from home. This means I’m far from the parades of brightly and uniformly-clad university students that I’m accustomed to hearing and seeing from my vantage point at the MaRS Centre, 10 floors above College Street in downtown Toronto. Not only am I unable to witness this September spectacle that […]

Blog Carnival: Is aging reversible?

Author: Stacey Johnson, 08/25/21

For this year’s blog carnival, I asked our illustrious group of bloggers, academics and thought leaders to discuss this statement by David Sinclair, a director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School: “Aging is far more reversible than we thought.” It’s an interesting statement. In my […]

Right Turn: Singing for stem cell research

Author: Stacey Johnson, 08/16/21

What does it take for a fundraising idea to succeed? In my view the following ingredients are necessary: an important cause that resonates with the public, an original fundraising idea that could be fun, challenging, embarrassing or all three, and celebrity endorsement. As someone who participated in the ALS #IceBucketChallenge in 2014, I’m speaking from […]