Skin has fascinated Dr. Elaine Fuchs for nearly four decades. After studying keratins, the major building blocks of epidermal cells, in her postdoc, she pioneered the use of reverse genetics to e...
Ivan Oransky is the vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today. In 2010, he co-founded Retraction Watch, where he and others discuss the latest news about retractions in scient...
This article appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Current Exchange Magazine. It’s customary in my lab to check the top science journals weekly to see what articles have been posted to the advan...
https://technophilicmag.com/2014/01/15/biorxiv-the-preprint-server-for-biology/
Luke McKinney did what anybody with three degrees in Physics would do: he became a humor writer for Cracked.com. Wait, what? Read on to find out about Luke’s career path and why he describes hi...
Dr. Joe Incandela is a professor of physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. At CERN, he also leads the Compact Muon Solenoid team, which in 2012 made headlines when they announced ...
https://technophilicmag.com/2013/11/06/higgs-boson-joe-incandela/
Since 2006, Dr. Suzanne Fortier has served as the President of NSERC. After completing her BSc and PhD in crystallography at McGill University, she held multiple senior research and administrativ...
Ronald Chwang is a seasoned entrepreneur and venture capitalist. After obtaining a B.Eng. from McGill in 1972 and a Ph.D. from USC in 1977, he worked several years at Acer before moving to the ve...
Eric Schadt is the Director of the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is also the Chief Scientific Officer at Pacific Biosciences. We sat d...
Dr. Green is the Director of the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). We caught up with Dr. Green at McGill’s 2011 Human Genetics Graduate Student Research Day, where he ga...
We met Dr. Chan Carusone during his last visit at McGill, where he gave a guest lecture about the ongoing research in his lab at UofT. He and his students are designing nanoscale electronic chips...
https://technophilicmag.com/2012/02/06/qa-with-tony-chan-carusone/