2025-10-19 from ctvnews.ca

After more than a decade of growing his career in cancer research in Australia and then being recruited to a coveted position in the U.S, Canadian-born scientist Wes Wilson packed up his lab at Penn Medical in Philadelphia and has moved 800 kilometres north to Toronto.

“This is, it is kind of surreal,” said Wilson.

The move was sparked by an innovative program called Canada Leads, launched in April by Toronto’s University Health Network. Its mission is to reverse decades of scientific brain drain by offering salaries, lab space, and collaboration opportunities to promising young researchers around the world.

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