Awards
Honoring Innovation + Excellence

The ISSCR is committed to celebrating the outstanding contributions of leaders in stem cell biology and translational medicine.
Congratulations to all the award winners. Recipients will be honored at the ISSCR Annual Meeting in Montréal, 8-11 July 2026.

2026 ISSCR Award Winners

Early Career Impact Award

Kyle M. Loh, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine,USA‍ ‍

View Dr. Kyle Loh’s award announcement.

The Early Career Impact Award is sponsored by:

Momentum Award

Alexander Meissner, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany

View Dr. Alexander Meissner’s award announcement.

The Momentum Award is sponsored by:

Lifetime Achievement Award

Allen C. Eaves, OC, OBC, MD, PhD, FRCPC
STEMCELL Technologies Inc., Canada
the late Connie J. Eaves, OC, FRSC, FRS PhD
BC Cancer Agency, Canada‍ ‍

View Drs. Allen and Connie Eaves’ award announcement.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is sponsored by:

Public Service Award

COREdinates and CorEuStem

View COREdinates and CorEuStem’s award announcement.

*COREdinates top image and CorEUStem bottom image

Early Career Impact Award Honorable Mention

Faranak Fattahi, PhD

University of California, San Francisco, USA

Kara McKinley, PhD

Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

Giorgia Quadrato, PhD

USC Stem Cell, USA

Naomi Moris, PhD

The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Joint honoree with Nicolas Rivron

Nicolas Rivron, PhD, Eng

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
Joint honoree with Naomi Moris

Momentum Award Honorable Mention

Kathrin Plath, PhD 

University of California, Los Angeles, USA 

Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD

Stanford School of Medicine, USA

Past Recipients

For more than two decades, the ISSCR has recognized the outstanding achievements of stem cell researchers around the world and supported the next generation of leading scientists.

  • Yonatan Stelzer (2025)

    Jun Wu (2024)

    Takanori Takebe (2023)

    Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins (2022)

    Madeline Lancaster (2021)

    Allon Klein (2020)

    Barbara Treutlein (2019)

    Shuibing Chen (2018)

    Jayaraj Ragagopal (2017)

    Fernando Camargo (2016)

    Paul Tesar (2015)

    Valentina Greco (2014)

    Marius Wernig (2013)

    Cédric Blanpain (2012)

    Robert Blelloch (2011)

    Joanna Wysocka (2010)

    Konrad Hochedlinger (2009)

  • Paola Arlotta (2025)

    Sergiu P. Paşca (2024)

    Cédric Blanpain (2023)

    Joanna Wysocka (2022)

    Valentina Greco (2021)

    Mitinori Saitou (2020)

  • Gordon Keller (2025)

    Fiona M. Watt (2024)

    Thomas A. Rando (2023)

    Lorenz Studer (2022)

    Janet Rossant (2021)

    Fred H. Gage (2020)

  • ISSCR Volunteer Leaders: Committees, Task Forces, Working Groups (2025)

    Peter W. Andrews & Tenneille Ludwig (2024)

    Christine L. Mummery (2023)

    Sean J. Morrison (2022)

    Robin Lovell-Badge (2021)

    Susan L. Solomon (2020)

    Eli and Edythe Broad (2019)

    Megan Munsie (2018)

    George Q. Daley (2017)

    Alan Trounson (2016)

    Paolo Bianco(2014) Co-Winner

    Elena Cattaneo(2014) Co-Winner

    Michele De Luca(2014) Co-Winner

    Hiromitsu Ogawa and Betty Jean Crouch Ogawa (2013)

    Rob and Cheryl McEwen (2012)

    Robert Klein (2011)

ISSCR Travel Awards

Students and postdocs who submit abstracts for the ISSCR Annual Meeting can be considered for a travel award to offset the costs of traveling to the meeting. Earning this award often is the difference-maker that allows a young scientist to attend the meeting. Let’s learn more about the science of these next gen researchers in their own words.

Travel Award selections are made by the ISSCR Membership and International Outreach Committee (MIOC) based on the strength of the abstracts from a pool of submitters who select to be considered for the award. To give even more students the opportunity to attend the ISSCR Annual meeting, consider giving to the Travel Award Fund.

Steering Committee

  • Shuibing Chen, PhD

    Weill Cornell, USA
    (Co-chair)​

  • Daniela Cornacchia, PhD

    AstraZeneca, Sweden
    (Co-chair)​

  • Luigi Aloia, PhD

    AstraZeneca, UK​

  • Erica Bello, PhD

    Milner Institute, University of Cambridge, UK ​

  • Kapil Bharti, PhD

    NEI/NIH, USA​

  • Hans Clevers, MD, PhD

    Roche, Switzerland ​

  • Magdalena Kasendra, PhD

    Cincinnati Children’s, USA​

  • Henning Kempf, PhD

    GEM CELL hub at Novo Nordisk​

  • Christine Mummery, PhD

    LUMC, Netherlands​

  • Steve Murry, PhD

    Jackson Labs, USA​

  • Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD

    Keio University, Japan​

  • Li Pang, MD

    FDA, USA​

  • Lee Rubin, PhD

    Harvard University, USA​

  • Charis Segeritz-Walko, PhD

    Novo Nordisk, Denmark ​

  • Clive Svendsen, PhD

    Cedars-Sinai, USA​

  • Carlos Tristan, PhD

    NCATS/NIH, USA​

  • Joseph Wu, MD, PhD

    Stanford University, USA​

  • Matthias Zilbauer, MD, PhD

    University of Cambridge, UK

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