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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: 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 […]

Right Turn: Predatory journals face a new foe from Canadian resource

Author: Stacey Johnson, 08/13/21

I’ve blogged about predatory journals in the past and explained why they are more than just a nuisance cluttering up your inbox. Now there is a wonderful new resource to help us navigate the hazardous world of predatory journals, courtesy of The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Let’s assume you already know that a predatory […]

Right Turn: Vacation travel humour and not a stem cell in sight

Author: Stacey Johnson, 08/06/21

I’m on vacation this week. Maybe you are too? As I typically do when I’m away, I’ve left a little something to amuse you, although it’s not related to stem cells or even science. You may find it funny in a cringey kind of way, but I think that still counts. When I’m back next […]