Meet Vanessa Colleran, 2023 NYC Full Marathon Compete4CMV Team Member

Vanessa Colleran is an educator who lives in Oxford, MA with her husband, Peter, and sons, Sam & Julian. Vanessa is also the mother to Logan who was born with cCMV and passed away from the disease at 4 months old. Since then, she has become an advocate for cCMV prevention and awareness. Vanessa is the vice president of the Massachusetts cCMV Coalition (MCC). She also serves on the Community Advisory Board for the CMV Transmission and Immune Tracking (TransmIT) Study, a research collaboration between UMASS Chan Medical School and Moderna Inc. In 2023, Vanessa ran the NYC Full Marathon on behalf of the National CMV Foundation as a Compete4CMV team member.