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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Classical heme clinical friends, come work with me! Join our Heme/Onc Division in the Neag Cancer Center at UConn Health! Check out the job listing here: www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/1003358/...

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Assistant or Associate Professor - Classical Hematology - Farmington, Connecticut job with UConn Health | 1003358

UConn Health seeks applicants for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Classical Hematology.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

For my lab lead friends, check out this article of best practices from my colleagues and I on the ISEH Junior PI committee on organizing a leading your team. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lxZ~,6sio...

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Interested in understanding AI better and best practices for using it in research? Don't forget to register for our @isehsociety.bsky.social webinar happening 10/22 @ 9am ET to learn how to use AI responsibly and effectively! iseh.org/Webinars-Eve...

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Webinars

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The findings at the recent trial and today's Columbia chaos is pushing me to the edge. I just sent the following email...

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Calls for volunteers to serve on a variety of committees for the @isehsociety.bsky.social are open now! Check out these opportunities if you're interested in developing leadership skills and your professional network. It takes a village! www.iseh.org/page/ISEHCom...

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ISEH Committees - International Society for Experimental Hematology

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m honored that I was asked to attend these advocacy meetings, and so proud to have participated in our democratic process.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I really hope people move past the two-party mindset because I genuinely worry, as our first president George Washington warned, that it will cause the collapse of what I still believe can be a great nation.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

After my experience today meeting with Congressmen across the aisle, I know that we the people are polarized, it shows in who we elected.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I took for granted my whole life that the newest, safest, most effective medical treatments in the world were accessible to me. That is no longer a given when we bow out of our leadership role and allow other countries to become potential gate keepers of innovation and regulatory standards.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

but in reality will unleash predatory clinics that omit necessary data that patients need to make their own informed decisions.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Because publicly available documentation on this meeting is conspicuously missing, we are concerned that the discussion that ensued is attempting to spin deregulation as an attempt to “increase access to healthcare”

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

with invited representatives from unproven stem cell therapy clinics that intentionally excluded community-respected experts on stem cell biology and their therapeutic use.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Distressingly, I learned that Secretary Kennedy (😖) has conducted at least one private round table discussion (which are required to be publicly announced and documented)

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

because most people don’t understand a whole lot about the differences between tissue-derived adult stem cells and how they work.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

As more adverse events from unproven stem cell therapies are uncovered (because without regulatory oversight the clinics are under no obligation to report them), I am concerned that people will lose trust in life-saving scientifically tested stem cell therapies such as bone marrow transplantation

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

and also deter people from receiving rigorously tested gold standard treatments that have demonstrated safety and efficacy.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I expressed concern that deregulation of stem cell therapies by the FDA would allow for more snake oil on the market which would precipitously increase the adverse events already being seen in many patients,

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

But they pose significant safety risks because they are collected and injected in unsafe labs that have high risks of contamination, which has resulted in patient harm including sepsis, blindness, paralysis, and even death (these are adjudicated cases by the department of justice).

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

On the second point, I shared anecdotes of vulnerable people like my grandparents being swindled by businessmen who claim to have the ability to cure their illnesses with “stem cell injections” that neither contain stem cells, nor effectively cure their disease.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I talked about the 250% return on investment that NIH-funded research has historically yielded for the American public, and emphasized the economic cost of losing that kind of investment. The ultimate consequence of all of this is our abdication of global leadership in science and technology.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I shared stories from the senior grad students whose thesis committees I sit on who are no longer expecting to stay in the U.S. but instead are seeking more stable training opportunities and finding more job prospects and security abroad.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

because we don’t have the confidence that the awards will resume and we won’t be able to pay them for all 5 years of training (on average) without grant money.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This next generation of scientists (most of whom were going to work in the private sector after training) have now lost their training opportunities because PhD programs reduced or eliminated this next year’s training slots

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

the broken workforce pipeline due to the fact that the vast majority of NIH funding was actually supporting the costs of living for the graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists who are receiving training and actively generating new knowledge in the biotech and medical fields.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I talked about the active brain drain occurring and the incentives other countries are offering to American research labs if they move there;

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I explained that the shotgun blast approach to eliminate waste at the NIH has resulted in a broken chain of communication that has created chaos, confusion and destroyed critical infrastructure necessary for it to execute its mission.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I talked about the ongoing obstruction of already federally approved funding of peer-reviewed meritoriously selected awards (including those of friends and colleagues whose applications were awarded, yet the money never came).

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

On the first point, I shared my first-hand accounts of the utter collapse of U.S. support for science, research and technology development. I shared about the unlawful termination of a grant that supported my graduate student.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I went to Capitol Hill yesterday as part of the @isscr.org advocacy day to talk about two emergent issues: 1) the defunding of public research, and 2) the threats of deregulation of unproven stem cell products.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I hate that I’m part of this statistic. Anyone who doesn’t see this as the back slide that it is, is intentionally sticking their head in the sand.

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Not long after I started my lab, a prominent scientist told me it was “impossible” to be a successful PI and a mother Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can! #HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

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The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy

The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Your last chance to register for our @isehsociety.bsky.social Mini Symposium is here! www.iseh.org/page/2025Min... Don't miss the opportunity to network and learn about incredible science! #ScienceIsInOurBlood

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2025 Mini Symposium - International Society for Experimental Hematology

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m incredibly honored to be recognized with this prestigious award from @isehsociety.bsky.social, especially because the work that earned me this is my anchor in an otherwise crazy world of research! #MentorFirst #ScienceIsInOurBlood #SiSePuede

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m three months out from a paper being sent by the editor for review 😬🫣😵‍💫

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

They’re so smart to recruit this way right now! Lots of American academics looking for new professional homes.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I’m just going to keep telling myself, “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.” And keep doing as much science as I can for as long as I can. 🙏🙏🙏

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#NewPI and senior #postdocs in hematology, submit your abstract by Feb 26th for the opportunity to speak at our virtual mini symposium on March 26th! It’s a great opportunity to raise awareness of your research/lab and might win you a travel grant to the @isehsociety.bsky.social annual meeting!

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Shannon McKinney-Freeman @smckinneyfreeman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

What a great resource! My lab has struggled in the past with some of the exact variables interrogated here. A must read for anyone diving into human HSCs! Methodological Considerations on How to Identify Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells - Experimental Hematology www.exphem.org/article/S030...

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Methodological Considerations on How to Identify Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

The hematopoietic system is highly regenerative and is organized hierarchically with hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) sitting at the apex. Despite being some of the most widely studied stem cells, ques...

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

And @ash.hematology.org is committed to equitable access to hematology clinical and research training, so don’t forget about the Hematology Inclusion Pathway #HIP awards too! #ScienceIsInOurBlood

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Children of Cuban refugees know this pattern well. 😓

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Flexible funding for working moms trying to attend conferences! x.com/mothersinsci...

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Your institution’s IT doesn’t have storage and archive space for you?

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I vote romantic. My grandparents just passed this fall, six weeks apart. Grandma wanted cremation, grandpa wanted to be buried in a casket. We put grandma’s urn in grandpa’s casket and buried them together. 🥹

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Mick Milsom @milsommick.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

For those of you who tried to access this but found it was initially behind a paywall, it is now open access.

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

For any #NewPIs that need to train RAs on mouse colony maintenance, check this out!

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Vanessa Scanlon, PhD @vanessascanlon.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I bet your generosity of time would be greatly appreciated in the grant writing course organized by Gene Shapiro!

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