When Iryna Ilienko escaped Ukraine with her daughters, she left behind her research and the 20-year career she had built as a cell biologist in Kyiv before the Russian invasion.Â
Ilienko and her girls, aged nine and 19, fled to Budapest, Hungary, shortly after the war began and stayed there for a month before flying into Edmonton on April 9, uncertain about what the future held for them.Â
As the war rages on, there is growing concern about the long-lasting effect the conflict will have on the global scientific community — and of the lost opportunities for discovery in the fields of academia, medicine
