Connie Eaves (May 22, 1944–March 7, 2024)
Constance Jean (Connie) Eaves was a pioneering scientist with outstanding and consistent contributions throughout her long-spanning, fifty-plus-year career. Her work with over 500 publications in hematopoiesis including erythropoiesis (Connie J. Gregory), and cancer stem cells, for which she obtained numerous awards, is recognized worldwide and widely cited. After her PhD training with Laszlo Lajtha in Manchester UK where she studied radiobiology and published her first “first author” paper in Nature, Connie carried out her post-doctoral training in Ontario Cancer Institute Toronto where she worked with James Till and Ernest McCulloch.