Dr Amy Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology at The University of Toronto. She became a PI in 2019 with a lab hosted at the Hospital for Sick Children, 10 years after starting her Postdoc. She is a pioneer in using human stem cells to model lung development and disease.


Listening to our conversation will prompt your thinking:

• How could “time off” give you the thinking space to identify and clarify the research niche you want to build for yourself.
• How informal supervision and building relationships as a Postdoc can fast track the recruitment of your research team when you become a PI
• Can the simple practice of a morning focused tasks check list become your multitasking best formula?

Read the blog inspired by our conversation:
https://tesselledevelopment.com/research-lives-and-cultures/amy-wong