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

Jacqueline Barry, PhD
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, UK

Alessandro Bertero, PhD
Università di Torino, Italy

Andrew Gaffney, PhD
STEMCELL Technologies Inc., Canada

Setsuko Hashimoto, PhD
CellSeed Inc., Japan

Derek Hei, PhD
Clade Therapeutics, USA

Catriona H.M. Jamieson, MD, PhD
UC San Diego School of Medicine, USA

Uma Lakshmipathy, PhD
Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA

Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD
Regenerative Patch Technologies, USA

Jennifer Moody, PhD
Danaher Corporation, Canada

Charles Murry, MD, PhD
University of Washington-Center for Cardiovascular Biology, USA

Felicia Pagliuca, PhD
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, USA

Malin Parmar, PhD
Lund University, Sweden

Graziella Pellegrini, PhD
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Italy

Rajesh Rao, MD
University of Michigan, USA

Lee Rubin, PhD
Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, USA

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 - Akitsu Hotta, PhD
CiRA, Kyoto University, Japan

Chair - Lygia da Veiga Pereira, PhD
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD
Hebrew University, Israel

Ray Dunn, PhD
Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore

Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, USA

Meritxell Huch, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Germany

Madeline A. Lancaster, PhD
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

Sarah Millar, PhD
Black Family Stem Cell Institute, USA

Verónica Alejandra Palma
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Athanasia D. Panopoulos, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA

Eugenia Piddini, PhD, BSc, MSc
University of Bristol, UK

Ole Pless, PhD, MSc
Fraunhofer IME ScreeningPort, Germany

Jihwan Song, DPhil
CHA University, South Korea

Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD
Pasteur Institute, France

Yi Arial Zeng, PhD
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China

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 - Haifan Lin, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD
ElevateBio IPSC, Inc., USA

Shuibing Chen, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College, USA

Amander Clark, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Hongkui Deng, PhD
Peking University, China

Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

Katherine Anne High, MD
The Rockefeller University, USA

Lygia da Veiga Pereira, PhD
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Lorenz Studer, MD
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA

Sally Temple, PhD
Neural Stem Cell Institute, USA

Fiona M. Watt, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci
King's College London, UK & EMBO, Germany

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, Japan

Robin Lovell-Badge, PhD, FRS
The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Zubin Master, BSc, PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA

Megan Munsie, PhD
University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia

Malin Parmar, PhD
Lund University, Sweden

Duanqing Pei, PhD
Westlake University School of Life Sciences, China

Doug 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 & EMBO, Germany

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

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

Valentina Greco, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, Genetics Department & Yale Stem Cell Center, USA

Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD
Regenerative Patch Technologies, USA

Urban Lendahl, PhD
Department Cell Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Melissa 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

Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA & Osaka University and Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 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