According to reports of a Canada-bound “brain drain” from the United States, 21 Canadian universities have taken advantage of Trump administration pressures on scientific research and funding at top U.S. universities by hiring at least 48 researchers from them. The hirings are funded, in part, by heavy Canadian government investment in research and innovation projects.
One scientist, Phillip Zamore, chair of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at the University of Massachusetts, will join the medical faculty at McGill University in Montréal. He said, “I used to live in the country that I thought was the most enthusiastic about the prospects for science improving the human condition, of any country in the world. And I woke up one day and that wasn’t true anymore.”
