Gearing up for #ORS2024 🌊 stop by and see what the Scanzello Lab has been up to! 🦴🧫🔬

ORS ISFR Orthopaedic Research Society Madison has been a wonderful undergraduate in the laboratory, and we are all so impressed with her work and poise on the podium!! Congrats Madison. Thanks to Tristan Maerz Christina Capobianco and Dr. Yadav Wagley for all the assistance!

Calling all ICEs (immune cell enthusiasts) to Room 104 at 2:45-4:15 today! We have lots of work ahead of us to properly understand how immune cells regulate MSK diseases. #ORS2024

Why did I dream about a swarm of locusts wearing the McKay logo… ? #ORS2024

THIS is how you address the gender and socioeconomic gap in academia! Mothers and families from less privileged backgrounds simply can't travel easily because childcare costs as much as a mortgage these days. Institutions should pitch in to ease the burden on societies

Lots to learn about mast cells in OA!

So the NIAMS payline for K99 grants is now 14 (impact score) - h/t Blaine Christiansen. If you are a Future PI Slack , what can you do to get funded? 🧵[1/4]

🎉 The most recent Stanford global survey of top scientists identified six faculty members from the U-M Health Rheumatology Division who ranked in the top 2% of most cited from over 10 million scientists active worldwide. Congratulations to our rheumatology faculty members!

Largest recipients of NIH funding for FY2023 1 Johns Hopkins U $843M 2 UCSF $789M 3 Penn $703M 4 Duke $702M 5 U Michigan $698M 6 Mass Gen Hospital $675M 7 Pitt $658M 8 Wash U $633M 9 Columbia U $633M 10 Stanford $629M Universities only; Source: NIH RePORT

Off to the poster session with TWO drink tickets

Professor Cook was everyone's mentor, everyone's favorite professor, a great engineer, and the best educator I've ever encountered. His influence on my career and the way I mentor my trainees is immeasurable. Thank you for everything, Ken.

Big congrats to two of this year’s John Haddad Young Investigator awardees, Alexander Knights and Evan Buettmann, Ph.D.! They both have very cool K99/R00 projects and are on the faculty market. Cheers and greetings from Snowmass!

The UMichigan contingent at AIMM 2024, featuring major career-changing skiing awards for Kurt Kurt Hankenson, Renny, Yuji, Lauren Lauren Surface, and myself. Rigor in the lab. Rigor on the slopes.

A new Boris Hinz + team review on fibrosis! Such fascinating biology, with many opportunities for novel interventions.

Come join us as a research tech. We welcome gap-year trainees who want to be part of a rich training environment to boost their experience for the next career step. We love pre-med, pre-dental, and pre-PhD scientists! You will learn, publish, and expand your network.

More evidence on soluble CD13, this time in the context of myofibroblast activation in scleroderma skin. Amazing job Eliza PS Tsou and team!

I'm overjoyed to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Michigan Medicine The people in my lab deserve all the praise. I am simply lucky to work alongside them. Heartfelt thanks to my mentors and collaborators for teaching and supporting me 🙌🙏