Executive Director, WE Spark Institute: Dr. Lisa Porter

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Women In STEM Speaker Series St.Clair College

Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre

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The Women in STEM Club Speaker Series Podcast is brought to you by the Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre, at St. Clair College and hosted by Sue Taylor, the Program Manager of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Student Experience. Through interviews with women who have excelled in male-dominated industries & environments, women who are leaders, and women that serve to inspire, this podcast aims to support and foster young women, showing them that they can accomplish all they set out to achieve (and then some).

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Executive Director, WE Spark Institute: Dr. Lisa Porter

Women In STEM Speaker Series St.Clair College

34 minutes

3 years ago

Executive Director, WE Spark Institute: Dr. Lisa Porter

Welcome to the St. Clair College Women in STEM speaker series Podcast, brought to you by the Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre, located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

This episode features Dr. Lisa Porter, the Executive Director of WE-SPARK Health Institute and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Windsor. She completed her Ph.D. at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON) in the Department of Medical Sciences and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA). Dr. Porter is the recipient of many Awards and Honours, including the Research Impact Award, Faculty of Science (2019), the David Kelly Award for Community Service, Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada (2018), and the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (2014).

Dr. Porter was a founding member of the Windsor Cancer Research Group and continues to sit on the Executive Committee. She is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) University Delegate, a Member of the College of Reviewers and a Scientific Member of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Tumor and Microenvironment Program. Dr. Porter has authored/co-authored book chapters, manuscripts and numerous peer-reviewed publications and has been invited to present her research across Canada and in the U.S. and Europe. Her research focus is Cell Cycle Checkpoints in Stem Cell Biology, the Initiation/Progression of Disease and Responsiveness to Treatments, Mouse & Zebrafish Genetics, Patient Xenograft and Organoid Model.

Lisa shares her journey of getting into research as a career, what WE Spark is & how it got started, mentors she’s had along her journey, and much more. We also finish off with some fun rapid-fire questions!

Tune in to hear more about Lisa’s story including:

What outlets she utilizes to maintain work-life balance
What a typical workday looks like in her career
Some of the most rewarding parts of working in research
What she’s learned throughout her career and would tell her 19-year-old self

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WE Spark: https://www.wesparkhealth.com/

Watch the full interview at: https://youtu.be/06YZ7_1dXBU

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