Professional Development

Dr. Nana Lee

Professional Development Workshop for Postdoctoral Fellows and PhDs – May 8, 15, 19, 2015.

7 April 2015|

Dr. Nana Lee brings her second annual summer workshop for PDFs and senior PhDs.

Topics to cover are: Success in Academia, Success outside of Academia, Effective Networking, Elevator Pitch, How to Create your Career Pathway, Writing a Stellar Resume and Cover Letter, Preparing for the Interview/Negotiation. Networking Sessions with Professionals from Academia, Sanofi, OGI, Baycrest, St Michael’s, Janssen Regulatory Affairs, Patent Law.

Sessions are interactive and outside work will be required.

Space is […]

10th Annual Benjamin Schachter Memorial Lecture

29 October 2014|

From 1934-1939 Dr. Benjamin (Benny) Schachter worked in the Department of Biochemistry conducting research on female sex hormones, isolating and identifying conjugated oestrone sulphate (Premarin). To honour Benny Schachter’s memory, a donation was made to the Department by his family. The funds are being used to support an annual lectureship in his memory. The BGSU and graduate students select and host the speaker who is a graduate from our Department.

This […]

Research Day 2014

12 June 2014|

200 attendees and 65 posters combined to make the 2014 Research Day a great success. This year we stayed close to home and hosted the event in the Medical Sciences Auditorium with posters in the Stone Lobby and lunch al fresco between the two.

Once again the cailber of science was extremely high, featuring research talks from trainees and faculty members, poster presentations, our annual Theo Hofmann Lecture (this year by […]

Professional Development Course Highlighted in Science Careers

2 October 2013|

The Department’s Professional Development Program and course, created by Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier and Dr. Nana Lee, is garnering international attention. It was recently highlighted in Science Careers, a division of the the journal Science.

Today, the majority of Ph.D. graduates in the biomedical sciences no longer obtain positions in academia. A survey of Ph.D.s graduating from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto (U of […]