To assess and advocate for responsible, favorable, and clear global regulations that impact clinical translation, cell manufacturing, and commercialization.

Chair - Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD
Carpenter Consulting Corporation, USA

Vice Chair - Tenneille E. Ludwig, PhD
WiCell, USA

Jacqueline Barry, PhD
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, UK

Alessandro Bertero , PhD
Università di Torino, Italy

Kapil Bharti, PhD
National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

Andrew Gaffney, PhD
STEMCELL Technologies Inc., Canada

Derek J. Hei, PhD
Clade Therapeutics, USA

Zoe Hewitt
Regenerative Cell Therapy Consulting Limited, UK

Deborah Hursh, PhD
Hursh Cell Therapy Consulting, LLC, USA

Uma Lakshmipathy, PhD
Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA

Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD
Regenerative Patch Technologies, USA

Jennifer Moody, PhD
Danaher Corporation, Canada

Charles Murry, MD, PhD
University of Washington-Center for Cardiovascular Biology, USA

Jihwan Song, DPhil
CHA University, South Korea

Yoshie Tsurumaki, Rph
Novartis, Japan

Debra Webster, PhD
Aditum Bio, USA

To foster a global ISSCR community, advise on membership policies, select travel awards, and recommend guidelines for encouraging EDI across the society.

Chair - Ole Pless, PhD, MSc
Fraunhofer ITMP, Germany

Vice Chair - Athanasia D. Panopoulos, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA

Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD
Hebrew University, Israel

Andrea Ditadi, PhD
Ospedale San Raffaele, Italy

Mubeen Goolam, PhD
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Akitsu Hotta, PhD
Kyoto University, Japan

Lijian Hui, PhD
Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Madeline A. Lancaster, PhD
Medical Research Council (MRC), UK

Rebecca Matsas, PhD
Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece

Sarah E. Millar, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Verónica Alejandra Palma, PhD
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Lygia Da Veiga Pereira, PhD
University of São Paulo, Brazil

Eugenia Piddini, PhD, BSc, MSc
University of Bristol, UK

Nika Shakiba, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Jihwan Song, DPhil
CHA University, South Korea

Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD
Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development, France

Responsible for reviewing candidates for the Board of Directors and presenting an election slate for annual elections. The committee also oversees the awards process for the ISSCR portfolio of awards (Outstanding Young Investigator, Momentum, and Achievement), including composition and procedures of the award selection committees.

Chair - Amander T. Clark, PhD 
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA 

Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD 
Carpenter Consulting Corporation, USA 

Fiona Doetsch, PhD  
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland  

Valentina Greco, PhD 
Yale School of Medicine, Genetics Department & Yale Stem Cell Center, USA 

Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD 
University of California, San Francisco, USA 

Melissa H. Little, AC, PhD 

Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Denmark & Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia 
 
Christine L. Mummery, PhD 
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands 

Kathy Niakan, PhD 
University of Cambridge, UK 

Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD 
Keio University of School of Medicine, Japan 

Lorenz Studer, MD 
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA 

Wei Xie, PhD 
Tsinghua University, China 

The Public Policy Committee seeks to achieve public policies that regulate stem cell research and translation in effective and appropriate ways worldwide.

Chair - Sean J. Morrison, PhD
Children's Medical Research Institute at UT Southwestern, USA

Eric Anthony
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA

R. Alta Charo, JD
University of Wisconsin, USA

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School, USA

Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, PhD
University of California San Diego, USA

Kazuto Kato, PhD
Osaka University Medical School, Japan

Robin Lovell-Badge, PhD, FRS
The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Zubin Master, BSc, PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA

Sarah E. Millar, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Megan Munsie, PhD
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia

Malin Parmar, PhD
Lund University, Sweden

Yaojin Peng, PhD
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Douglas Sipp
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics, Japan

Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Giuseppe Testa, MD PhD MA
Foundation Human Technopole, Italy

Alan O. Trounson, MSc PhD
Monash University, Australia

Fiona Watt, PhD
King's College London, UK

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD
California Institute of Technology, USA

Ex Officio - Brian Aguado, PhD
University of California San Diego, USA

Ex Officio - Justin Brumbaugh, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Ex Officio - Tamra Lysaght, PhD
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Provides oversight of the Society’s scientific publishing activities, including the society journal, Stem Cell Reports, and advises on the editorial calendar of meetings outside the Annual Meeting. This includes concepts for webinar and symposia programming, and review of grassroots proposals. The committee ensures content and programs are complementary, aligned with Society strategic priorities, and in keeping with ISSCR’s standards for excellence and rigor.

Chair - Eran Meshorer, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Life Sciences, Israel

Vice Chair - Wei Xie, PhD
Tsinghua University, China

Allison Bardin, PhD
Institut Curie, France

Gray Camp, PhD
Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering, Switzerland

Maria Pia Cosma, PhD
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

Jianping Fu, PhD
University of Michigan, USA

Ruwanthi Gunawardane, PhD
Allen Institute, USA

Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Jing Qu, PhD
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

Kaelyn Sumigray, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, USA

Sara Wickström, MD, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany

Ex Officio - Martin F. Pera, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory, USA

The Strategic Oversight Committee provides oversight of the structure, mission, and membership with the goal of achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion across all Society functions.

Chair - Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

Amander T. Clark, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Hongkui Deng, PhD
Peking University, China

Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA

Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD
Regenerative Patch Technologies, USA

Urban Lendahl, PhD
Department Cell Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Christine L. Mummery, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Kathy Niakan, PhD
University of Cambridge, UK

Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA & Osaka University and Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

Sally Temple, PhD
Neural Stem Cell Institute, USA

Joanna Wysocka, PhD
Stanford University, USA

Ex Officio - Hideyuki Okano, PhD
Keio University of School of Medicine, Japan