The loss of these highly educated professionals from developing countries to developed nations has been termed "brain drain" or reverse transfer of technology.
El MTBI se centra en proporcionar oportunidades de investigación para estudiantes de bachillerato y doctorado que estén interesados en trabajar en la interfase entre las ciencias sociales y naturales y las matemáticas.
"Our first few hires were people who could do a wide variety of tasks. It is invaluable to have team members who can roll up their sleeves and dig in to any task to get it done." --Jennie Mather
"Big pharma is atop the ecosystem with capital and resources needed to commercialize new drugs. They are the integrators, orchestrating the drug development process with members of the ecosystem."
"MTBI focuses on providing research opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in working on problems at the interface of the natural and social sciences and mathematics."
By building women's support networks and establishing connections between a variety of University of Toronto women, both on a one-to-one basis and as a group of people, the program works to create a community of women on campus.
While pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars searching for pharmacological compounds through extensive screening of chemical libraries, for millions of years snakes have designed their own blockbuster drugs with the help of natural selection only.