Steering Committee

Tenneille Ludwig, Co-Chair

WiCell Research Institute (USA)

Peter Andrews, Co-Chair

The University of Sheffield (UK)

Ivana Barbaric

The University of Sheffield (UK)

Nissim Benvenisty

Hebrew University (Israel)

Madeline Lancaster

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (UK)

Christine Mummery

Leiden University Medical Center (Netherlands)

Martin Pera

The Jackson Laboratory (USA)

Yoji Sato

National Institute of Health Sciences (Japan)

Glyn Stacey

International Stem Cell Banking Initiative (UK)

Christine A. Wells

University of Melbourne (Australia)

Tongbiao Zhao

Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing (China)

Working Group Members

Basic Characterization Standards

Glyn Stacey, Co-Chair

International Stem Cell Banking Initiative (UK)

Tenneille Ludwig, Co-Chair

WiCell Research Institute (USA)

Jeremy Crook

The University of Sydney, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, The University of Wollongong (Australia)

Laurence Daheron

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (USA)

Jon Draper

Stem Cell Network (Canada)

Lyn Healy

Francis Crick Institute (UK)

Andreas Kurtz

Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, (Germany)

Undifferentiated Stem Cells and Pluripotency

Peter Andrews, Co-Chair

The University of Sheffield (UK)

Martin Pera, Co-Chair

The Jackson Laboratory (USA)

Lyn Healy

Francis Crick Institute (UK)

Maneesha Inamdar

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (India)

Tenneille Ludwig

WiCell Research Institute (USA)

Noriko Shimasaki

Center for iPS Research and Application, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Japan)

Austin Smith

University of Exeter (UK)

Genomic Characterization

Ivana Barbaric, Co-Chair

The University of Sheffield (UK)

Tenneille Ludwig, Co-Chair

WiCell Research Institute (USA)

Peter Andrews

The University of Sheffield (UK)

Nissim Benvenisty

Hebrew University (Israel)

Martin Pera

The Jackson Laboratory (USA)

Yoji Sato

National Institute of Health Sciences (Japan)

Claudia Spits

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Tongbiao Zhao

Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing (China)

Stem Cell-derived Model Systems (Organoids, Microphysiological Systems, Engineered Cells, Disease Modelling)

Madeline Lancaster, Co-Chair

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (UK)

Christine Mummery, Co-Chair

Leiden University Medical Center (Netherlands)

Anita Bhattacharyya

University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Jeremy Crook

The University of Sydney, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, The University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia (Australia)

Meritxell Huch

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and Center for Systems Biology, Dresden (Germany)

Kim Jensen

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Prisca Liberali

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (Switzerland)

Matthias Lutolf

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) (Switzerland)

Jihwan Song

CHA University, and iPS Bio, Inc. (Korea)

Christine A. Wells

University of Melbourne (Australia)

Tongbiao Zhao

Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (China)

Supported by ISSCR Staff

Tyler Lamb, Director of Policy

Jack Mosher, Scientific Advisor

Special Acknowledgements

The standards task force would like to thank the numerous reviewers who provided their time and expertise to review the initial draft of the document. We would also like to thank Eric Anthony for his work in establishing this initiative and Saliha Moore for administrative support.

Special thanks to Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF grant #1022889), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF grant #2022145) (now the Doris Duke Foundation), and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI grant #1025472) whose financial contributions made this work possible, and to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM #EDUC1-13553) for supporting the 2022 community engagement workshop.