Dr. Paola Marignani

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.

Dr. Marignani serves on the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Basic & Translational Science Committee, and is a member of the following AACR committees; AACR Lung Cancer Research Scientific Review Committee, AACR-Johnson & Johnson Interventional Oncology Stimulating Therapeutic Advances through Research Training (START) Committee, and the AACR-ALK Positive Lung Cancer Research Fellowships Committee. 

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 2700 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 and completed in 2023. #CDNWomenSTEM #LeadByLifting #EDI #ScienceSaves #ScienceIsFun

In 2021, Dr. Marignani joined Creative Destruction Lab as a Mentor Scientist and Business Strategist for both Prime and the Cancer Streams in CDL-Toronto, CDL-Atlantic and CDL-Vancouver. She is also Scientific Director of the QEII Lung Tumour Biobank.