2025 Interview Spotlight Series: Part VI

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This week on Simply Blood we are completing our 2025 Interview Spotlight Series. This final part features the ISEH 2025 Leadership in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award Winner: Vanessa Scanlon, PhD. Professor Scanlon discusses being an advocate in your day-to-day as a leader, her involvement in multiple summer research programs aimed at providing opportunities to students from underrepresented backgrounds, and advice for team leaders on fostering an inclusive environment. 







Vanessa Scanlon, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Biology, UConn Health
Assistant Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Medicine





Blog post contributed by Gemma Kelly of the ISEH Junior Faculty Committee.

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