3.5: The Qualities of a Revolutionary Woman with Dr. Leda Raptis

Leda is a professor in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, formerly Microbiology and Immunology. She did her undergraduate degree in Greece at the Agricultural University of Athens which her grandfather founded back in 1919. In 1973, Leda came to Canada to do a Master's at McGill, then a PhD at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec. In 1981, she received a "Centennial Fellowship" from the Medical research Council of Canada to be a postdoctoral fellow in Princeton and then at Harvard. Leda came to Queen's as an assistant professor in July of 1986. She has received several other research and teaching awards over the years and has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, reviews and book chapters. Enjoy Part 2!