Circle of Stem Cell Institutes & Centers

Stem cell science and regenerative medicine are quickly advancing how we understand disease and translate that expanding knowledge into new therapies for the world’s most devastating diseases. 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.

The below organizations have been invited to the Circle of Stem Cell Institutes & Centers.


  • 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: nyomi.cepeda2@mssm.edu or jessica.bauza@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

  • Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University

    Director: Jun Takahashi, MD, PhD
    53 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku,
    Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
    Contact: cira-pr@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp

  • Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari” – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

    Director: Michele De Luca, MD
    University of Modena and Reggio Emili
    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

  • Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology

    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

  • Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells UC Santa Cruz

    Director: Co-Directors: Professor Lindsay Hinck, PhD, and Professor Camilla Forsberg, PhD
    Santa Cruz, California, USA
    Contact: ibsc@ucsc.edu

  • IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences

    Director: Elly Tanaka, PhD
    Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
    Contact: office@imba.oeaw.ac.at

  • Institute of Molecular Embryology Genetics

    Director: Hitoshi Niwa, MD, PhD
    2-2-1 Honjo, Chuno-ku, Kumamotoo 860-0811, Japan
    Contact: imeg@kumamoto-u.ac.jp

  • Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

    Director: Charles Murry, MD, PhD
    850 Republican Street
    Box 358056
    Seattle, WA 98109 USA

  • Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)

    Director: Maneesha S Inamdar, PhD
    GKVK - Post, Bellary Road, Bengaluru,
    Karnataka 560065, India
    Contact: communications@instem.res.in

  • Lund Stem Cell Center

    Director: Johan Jakobsson, PhD
    Lund University
    BMC B10, Sölvegatan 19
    221 84 Lund, Sweden

  • McEwen UHN Stem Cell Institute

    Director: Gordon Keller, PhD
    101 College Street
    Toronto, ON M5G 1L7 Canada

  • Neural Stem Cell Institutes

    Director: Sally Temple, PhD
    One Discovery Drive, Rensselaer, NY 12144 USA
    Contact: info@neuralsci.org

  • Penn IRM Institute for Regenerative Medicine

    Director: Ken Zaret, PhD
    3400 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

  • Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center

    Director: Timothy Kamp, MD, PhD
    8459WIMR II, 1111 Highland Avenue
    Madison, WI 53705 USA
    Contact: SCRMC@medicine.wisc.edu

  • Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA

    Director: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD
    Box 957357
    Los Angeles, California 90095-7357
    Contact: bscrc@mednet.ucla.edu

  • UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute

    Director: Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD
    9500 Gilman Drive
    La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
    Contact: mghani@health.ucsd.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

  • The University of Melbourne Centre for Stem Cell Systems

    Director: Christine Wells, PhD
    The University of Melbourne
    VIC 3010, Australia
    Contact: stem-cells@unimelb.edu.au

  • USC Stem Cell

    Director: Charles Murry, MD, PhD
    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

  • 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

For further information on the Circle of Stem Cell Institutes and Centers, email Lynnea Brand. If you would like your institute or center to be considered for inclusion, please complete the form below.