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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: Talking gene therapies at StemCellTalks McMaster

Author: Stacey Johnson, 04/20/18

This week (April 15-21) is National Volunteer Week. Across Canada, 12.7 million people donate their time to make Canada a better place to live. In the stem cell community, scientists, clinicians, researchers and hundreds of university students across the country work hard to make StemCellTalks a success every year. In the spirit of National Volunteer […]

Will THIW become the next TIFF?

Author: Stacey Johnson, 04/13/18

For those who aren’t familiar with THIW, there are parties but no films getting their world premieres. The comparison I’m making in the title is to the fact THIW is becoming a must-attend week-long event, with so much going on from morning to night, that serious THIW-goers may one year need to block their work […]

Checking in at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

Author: Stacey Johnson, 03/30/18

Canada’s reputation for excellent science in the field of regenerative medicine can be traced back to the University of Toronto (U of T). Quite literally, Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch were U of T researchers when they discovered stem cells in the early 1960s. Not to minimize or dismiss excellent research happening across Canada […]

Right Turn: Will civil lawsuits stop the marketing of unapproved stem cell treatments?

Author: Stacey Johnson, 03/23/18

With 570 stem cell clinics in the United States alone offering direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell interventions and “clear grounds for concern that some of the companies we found are not compliant with federal regulations” (Knoepfler and Turner, Cell Stem Cell), it comes as little surprise that patients are getting treatments that, at best, do […]

Right Turn: International Women’s Day should be every day

Author: Stacey Johnson, 03/08/18

International Women’s Day (IWD), also known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace, is an opportunity to honour women’s achievements, “to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.” I […]