About — International Society for Stem Cell Research

Officers

Valentina Greco, PhD

President | 2024-2025
Yale School of Medicine, Genetics Department & Yale Stem Cell Center
USA
Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD

President Elect | 2024-2025
Keio University, Japan
Lorenz Studer, MD

Vice President l 2024-2025
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Clive Svendsen, PhD

Treasurer | 2022-2025
Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute
USA
Fiona Doetsch, PhD

Clerk | 2021-2025
Biozentrum at the University of Basel
Switzerland
Amander T. Clark, PhD

Past President | 2024-2025
University of California, Los Angeles
USA

Amander T. Clark, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (2023-2024)
Haifan Lin, Yale University School of Medicine, USA (2022-2023)
Melissa H. Little, Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Denmark and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia (2021-2022)
Christine L. Mummery, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands (2020-2021)
Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institutes, USA (2019-2020)
Douglas A. Melton,Harvard University, USA (2018-2019)
Hans C. Clevers, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands (2017-2018)
Sally Temple, Neural Stem Cell Institute, USA (2016-2017)
Sean Morrison, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (2015-2016)
Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA (2014-2015)
Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada (2013-2014)
Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto University, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Japan (2012-2013)
Fred H. Gage, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA (2011-2012)
Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, USA (2010-2011)
Irving L. Weissman, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA (2009-2010)
Fiona M. Watt, CR-UK Cambridge Research Institute, UK (2008-2009)
George Q. Daley, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA (2007-2008)
Paul J. Simmons, Univ of Texas Health Science Center, USA (2006-2007)
Gordon M. Keller, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA (2005-2006)
Leonard I. Zon, Boston Children's Hospital, USA (2002-2005)

Board of Directors

Jacqueline Barry, PhD

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, UK
Helen Blau, PhD

Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD

Carpenter Consulting Corporation, USA
Shuibing Chen, PhD

Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Michele De Luca, MD

University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jürgen Knoblich, PhD

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology & Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD

University of California, San Francisco, USA
Tenneille E. Ludwig, PhD

WiCell, USA
Megan Munsie, PhD

University of Melbourne & Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Kathy Niakan, PhD

University of Cambridge, UK
Malin Parmar, PhD

Lund University, Sweden
Lygia da Veiga Pereira, PhD

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Mitinori Saitou, MD, PhD

Kyoto University, Japan
Kenneth S. Zaret, PhD

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Haifan Lin, PhD

Ex Officio
Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Martin F. Pera, PhD

Ex Officio
The Jackson Laboratory, USA
Leonard I. Zon, MD

Ex Officio
Boston Children's Hospital, USA

Committees (2024-2025)

The Annual Meeting Program Committee is responsible for organizing the scientific content for the Society’s Annual Meetings.
Chair - Kathryn SE Cheah, PhD
University of Hong Kong, China
Chair - Eugenia Piddini, PhD, BSc, MSc
University of Bristol, UK
Alessandro Aiuti, MD, PhD
San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy
Vivian Gama, PhD
Vanderbilt University, USA
Richard J. Gilbertson, MD PhD
CRUK Cambridge Institute, UK
Lijian Hui, PhD
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB), China
Tina Mukherjee, PhD
Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), India
Lygia da Veiga Pereira, PhD
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Kirstin Sadler Edepli, PhD
NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA and Osaka University and Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Angela R. Wu, PhD
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Joseph C. Wu, MD PhD
Stanford University, USA
Ex Officio - Valentina Greco, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, Genetics Department & Yale Stem Cell Center, USA
The Annual Meeting Program Committee is responsible for organizing the scientific content for the Society’s Annual Meetings.
Chair - Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Chair – Nozomu Yachie, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada
Responsible for fostering early career scientist interest, exposure and involvement in the society through inter-committee communication and planning and execution of the early career events at the annual meeting.
Chair - Evan Graham, PhD
BioLamina Inc., USA
Vice Chair - Alessandro Bertero, PhD
Università di Torino, Italy
Shuibing Chen, PhD,
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Nikolas Dresch Ferreira
University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil
Elisa Giacomelli, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Kelvin K. Hui
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan
Thomas Hutschalik
SCITARIS GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Ran Jing, PhD
Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital, USA
Olivia Majhi
Banaras Hindu University, India
Graziano Martello, PhD
University of Padova, Italy
Thulaj Meharwade
Stanford University, USA
Anjie Ni
McGill University, Canada
Amelia Semenak
McGill University, Canada
Hilary Toh
Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Responsible for identifying educational needs important to the success of the field at large, developing and implementing complementary outreach initiatives. The committee may also assist with the updating and maintenance of existing ISSCR resources.
Chair - Eugenia Piddini, PhD, BSc, MSc
University of Bristol, UK
Vice Chair – Jaime Imitola, MD
UConn Health, USA
Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, MD, PhD, MSPH
Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA
William J. Anderson, PhD
Harvard Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, USA
Roger Barker, MBBS, MRCP, PhD
University of Cambridge, UK
Kathryn S.E. Cheah, PhD
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anna Couturier, PhD
EuroGCT, UK
Elisa Giacomelli, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Insoo Hyun, PhD
Boston Museum of Science, USA
Kathryn S. Jones, PhD
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sally Lowell, PhD
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
Zubin Master, BSc, PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA
Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD
Keio University of School of Medicine, Japan
Graziella Pellegrini, PhD
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Italy
Carolyn Sangokoya, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
Cecile Terrenoire, PhD
The New York Stem Cell Foundation, USA
The Ethics Committee surveys ethical and policy issues in stem cell research and provides ethics-related perspectives and education to the Society and its constituents.
Chair - Kazuto Kato, PhD
Osaka University Medical School, Japan
Vice Chair - Rosario Isasi, JD MPH
University of Miami, USA
Nienke de Graeff, MA, MD, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Misao Fujita, MS, MPH, PhD
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan
Insoo Hyun, PhD
Boston Museum of Science, USA
Erica C. Jonlin, PhD
University of Washington, USA
Megan Munsie, PhD
University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Kaori Muto, PhD
The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kathy Niakan, PhD
University of Cambridge, UK
Krishanu Saha, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Giuseppe Testa, MD PhD MA
Foundation Human Technopole, Italy
Zhaochen Wang, PhD
Peking Union Medical College, China
Provides oversight of ISSCR financial planning and activity to ensure future security of the Society, and within that, to fund responsibly activities and programs that ISSCR sees important to its mission, and to assess financial risk.
Chair - Clive Svendsen, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute, USA
Jennifer Brogdon, PhD
Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, USA
Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD
Regenerative Patch Technologies, USA
Lee Rubin, PhD
Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, USA
Paul J. Tesar, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Kenneth S. Zaret, PhD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA

To assess and advocate for responsible, favorable, and clear global regulations that impact clinical translation, cell manufacturing, and commercialization.
Chair - Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD
Carpenter Consulting Corporation, USA
Vice Chair - Tenneille E. Ludwig, PhD
WiCell, USA
Ricardo Baptista, PhD
SmartCella, Sweden
Ivana Barbaric, DPhil
University of Sheffield, UK
Jacqueline Barry, PhD
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, UK
Alessandro Bertero , PhD
Università di Torino, Italy
Kapil Bharti, PhD
National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
Andrew Gaffney, PhD
STEMCELL Technologies Inc., Canada
Derek J. Hei, PhD
Clade Therapeutics, USA
Zoe Hewitt
Regenerative Cell Therapy Consulting Limited, UK
Deborah Hursh, PhD
Hursh Cell Therapy Consulting, LLC, USA
Uma Lakshmipathy, PhD
Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA
Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD
Regenerative Patch Technologies, USA
Marinna Madrid, PhD
Cellino Biotech, USA
Jennifer Moody, PhD
Danaher Corporation, Canada
Charles Murry, MD, PhD
USC Stem Cell, USA
Yoji Sato, PhD
National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan
Jihwan Song, DPhil
CHA University, South Korea
Yoshie Tsurumaki, Rph
Novartis, Japan
Debra Webster, PhD
Aditum Bio, USA
To foster a global ISSCR community, advise on membership policies, select travel awards, and recommend guidelines for encouraging EDI across the society.
Chair - Ole Pless, PhD, MSc
Fraunhofer ITMP, Germany
Vice Chair - Athanasia D. Panopoulos, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD
Hebrew University, Israel
Andrea Ditadi, PhD
Ospedale San Raffaele, Italy
Mubeen Goolam, PhD
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Akitsu Hotta, PhD
Kyoto University, Japan
Lijian Hui, PhD
Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Madeline A. Lancaster, PhD
Medical Research Council (MRC), UK
Rebecca Matsas, PhD
Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece
Sarah E. Millar, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Verónica Alejandra Palma, PhD
Universidad de Chile, Chile
Lygia Da Veiga Pereira, PhD
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Eugenia Piddini, PhD, BSc, MSc
University of Bristol, UK
Nika Shakiba, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada
Jihwan Song, DPhil
CHA University, South Korea
Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD
Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development, France
Su-Yi Tsai, PhD
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Responsible for reviewing candidates for the Board of Directors and presenting an election slate for annual elections. The committee also oversees the awards process for the ISSCR portfolio of awards (Outstanding Young Investigator, Momentum, and Achievement), including composition and procedures of the award selection committees.
Chair - Amander T. Clark, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD
Carpenter Consulting Corporation, USA
Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Valentina Greco, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, Genetics Department & Yale Stem Cell Center, USA
Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Melissa H. Little, AC, PhD
Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Denmark & Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia

Christine L. Mummery, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Kathy Niakan, PhD
University of Cambridge, UK
Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD
Keio University of School of Medicine, Japan
Lorenz Studer, MD
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA
Wei Xie, PhD
Tsinghua University, China
The Public Policy Committee seeks to achieve public policies that regulate stem cell research and translation in effective and appropriate ways worldwide.
Chair - Sean J. Morrison, PhD
Children's Medical Research Institute at UT Southwestern, USA
Eric Anthony
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
R. Alta Charo, JD
University of Wisconsin, USA
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School, USA
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, PhD
University of California San Diego, USA
Kazuto Kato, PhD
Osaka University Medical School, Japan
Robin Lovell-Badge, PhD, FRS
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Zubin Master, BSc, PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA
Sarah E. Millar, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Megan Munsie, PhD
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Malin Parmar, PhD
Lund University, Sweden
Yaojin Peng, PhD
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Douglas Sipp
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics, Japan
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Giuseppe Testa, MD PhD MA
Foundation Human Technopole, Italy
Alan O. Trounson, MSc PhD
Monash University, Australia
Fiona Watt, PhD
King's College London, UK
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD
California Institute of Technology, USA
Ex Officio - Brian Aguado, PhD
University of California San Diego, USA
Ex Officio - Justin Brumbaugh, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Ex Officio - Tamra Lysaght, PhD
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Provides oversight of the Society’s scientific publishing activities, including the society journal, Stem Cell Reports, and advises on the editorial calendar of meetings outside the Annual Meeting. This includes concepts for webinar and symposia programming, and review of grassroots proposals. The committee ensures content and programs are complementary, aligned with Society strategic priorities, and in keeping with ISSCR’s standards for excellence and rigor.
Chair - Eran Meshorer, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Life Sciences, Israel
Vice Chair - Wei Xie, PhD
Tsinghua University, China
Allison Bardin, PhD
Institut Curie, France
Gray Camp, PhD
Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering, Switzerland
Maria Pia Cosma, PhD
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Jianping Fu, PhD
University of Michigan, USA
Ruwanthi Gunawardane, PhD
Allen Institute, USA
Karl R. Koehler, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Jing Qu, PhD
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
Kaelyn Sumigray, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, USA
Sara Wickström, MD, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany
Ex Officio - Martin F. Pera, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory, USA
The Strategic Oversight Committee provides oversight of the structure, mission, and membership with the goal of achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion across all Society functions.
Chair - Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Amander T. Clark, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Hongkui Deng, PhD
Peking University, China
Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD
Regenerative Patch Technologies, USA
Christine L. Mummery, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Kathy Niakan, PhD
University of Cambridge, UK
Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA & Osaka University and Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Sally Temple, PhD
Neural Stem Cell Institute, USA
Joanna Wysocka, PhD
Stanford University, USA
Ex Officio - Hideyuki Okano, PhD
Keio University of School of Medicine, Japan