
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.
Black Family Stem Cell Institute
Director: Sarah Millar, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
1425 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029 USA
Contact: MaryMarcelle.Niles@MSSM.edu
Boston Children’s Hospital
Director: Leonard Zon, MD
One Blackfan Circle
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Contact: stemcell.childrenshospital.org
Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors
Regenerative Medicine Institute
Director: Clive Svendsen, PhD
Pavilion, Eighth Floor
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA
Contact: +1-310-248-8072
Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari” – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Director: Professor Michele De Luca, MD
Via Glauco Gottardi 100, 41125 Modena, Italy
Contact: cmr@unimore.it
Custom Center for Stell Cell & Organoid Medicine
Director: Aaron Zorn, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
240 Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA
Contact: custom@cchmc.org
Gladstone Institutes Science Overcoming Disease
Director: Deepak Srivastava, MD
1650 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94158 USA
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 USA
Lund Stem Cell Center
Director: Johan Jakobsson, PhD
Lund University
BMC B10, Sölvegatan 19
221 84 Lund, Sweden
Director: Gordon Keller, PhD
101 College Street
Toronto, ON M5G 1L7 Canada
Director: Sally Temple, PhD
One Discovery DriveRensselaer, NY 12144 USA
Tel: 518 694 8188
Contact: info@neuralsci.org
Director: Ken Zaret, PhD
PhD3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
Contact: irmed@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy
Director: Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD
Via Ongettina 58, 20132 Milano, Italy
Contact: direzione.srtiget@hsr.it
8459WIMR II, 1111 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705 USA
Contact: SCRMC@medicine.wisc.edu
Director: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD
Box 957357
Los Angeles, California 90095-7357
Contact: bscrc@mednet.ucla.edu
UCSF Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Director: Tippi C. Mackenzie, MD
35 Medical Center Way
San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
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 USA
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 USA
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 USA
Contact: alison.bonds@yale.edu