by Stacey Johnson | Mar 17, 2023
Toronto, Canada’s Tak Mak, OC, OOnt, FRS, FRSC, has won the prestigious Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research, valued at US$100,000. Dr. Mak, who has his lab at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PMCC), is...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 10, 2023
If you’ve watched the 1992 movie Lorenzo’s Oil, based on the true story of parents searching for a treatment for their son’s rare neurological disease, adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), then the real-life story of the Pirovolakis family might feel familiar. The Pirovolakis...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 3, 2023
Can you name 10 Black Canadians who have made significant contributions to life in Canada? That was a question posed by Vicki Olatundon, a motivational speaker, during a Black History Month presentation. (More on this later.) Here’s another question: what does Black...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 17, 2023
In 2019 I wrote an open letter to Joe Rogan, asking him to be more judicious in how he discusses stem cells on his popular – 12.8 million subscribers – podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Much to my surprise, I didn’t hear back from Joe or his people although I tagged...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 11, 2023
Have you heard of Henrietta Leavitt, Annie Cannon and Williamina Fleming? They are to astronomy what Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson are to NASA and the space race. If the latter three names are familiar, you probably saw the movie Hidden Figures,...
by Stacey Johnson | Jan 27, 2023
Last year saw the organizers behind Advanced Therapies Week (ATW) move the conference from Miami to Miami Beach to accommodate a larger audience. As the Covid-19 pandemic was still going strong in January 2022, making international travel more difficult, attendance...
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