
Invited Members: Circle of Stem Cell Institutes and Centers
The ISSCR recognizes the following stem cell institutes and centers that adhere to widely shared principles that call for rigor, oversight, and transparency in all areas of practice to ensure research is conducted with scientific and ethical integrity and that new therapies are evidence-based.
To learn more about these institutes, please visit their web sites, listed below.
Boston Children’s Hospital
Director: Leonard Zon, MD
One Blackfan Circle
Boston, MA 02115
Contact: stemcell.childrenshospital.org
Custom Center for Stell Cell & Organoid Medicine
Director: Aaron Zorn, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
240 Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45229
Contact: custom@cchmc.org
Gladstone Institutes Science Overcoming Disease
Director: Deepak Srivastava, MD
1650 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
Contact: info@gladstone.org



Director: Mitinori Saitou, M.D., Ph.D.
Faculty of Medicine Bldg. B, Kyoto University Yoshida-Konoe-cho,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Contact: ASHBi-info@mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Director: Co-Directors: Professor Lindsay Hinck, PhD, and Professor Camilla Forsberg, PhD
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Contact: ibsc@ucsc.edu
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Director: Juergen Knoblich, PhD
Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Contact: office@imba.oeaw.ac.at
Director: Hitoshi Niwa, M.D., Ph.D.
2-2-1 Honjo, Chuno-ku, Kumamotoo 860-0811, Japan
Contact: imeg@kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Director: Charles Murry, MD, PhD
850 Republican Street
Box 358056
Seattle, WA 98109
Director: Sally Temple, PhD
One Discovery DriveRensselaer, NY 12144
Tel: 518 694 8188
Contact: info@neuralsci.org
Director: Ken Zaret, PhD
PhD3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Contact: irmed@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy
Director: Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD
8459WIMR II, 1111 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705
Contact: SCRMC@medicine.wisc.edu
Director: Christine Wells, PhD
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010, Australia
Contact: stem-cells@unimelb.edu.au
USC Stem Cell
Director: Andrew P. McMahon, PhD, FRS
1425 San Pablo Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Contact: stemcell@usc.edu
Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
Directors: Angela Bowman, Farshid Guilak, PhD, and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, PhD
4515 McKinley Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110
Contact: devbio-crminfo@email.wustl.edu
Twitter: @wustlcrm
Yale Stem Cell Center
Director: Haifan Lin, PhD
10 Amistad Street
P.O. Box 208073
New Haven, CT 06520-8073
Contact: alison.bonds@yale.edu