Paola Marignani

Professor, Dalhousie University

Role: Scientist

Site: CDL-Atlantic

Stream: Prime

Dr. Paola Marignani is a Full Professor at Dalhousie University in the Faculty of Medicine, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, with Cross-Appointment in the Dept of Pathology. She conducted postdoctoral training at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario and at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Signal Transduction. In addition to Dr. Marignani’s scientific expertise, she holds an Executive MBA from Ivey Business School at Western University and a certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management-Artificial Intelligence in Health Care. Dr. Marignani is the Founder and CEO of Single Cell Precision Inc.

Dr. Marignani is the Founder of Canadian Women in STEM that is focused on building a national strategy for equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada. CDNWomenSTEM is networked with 2000 self-identified scientists for across the STEM spectrum. CDNWomenSTEM supports the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) #DimensionsEDI initiative that was ratified in 2019.