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Steering Group

  • Altex (Sonja von Aulock)
  • Aracari Biosciences (Ming-I Huang)
  • ASCCT (Kristie Sullivan)
  • AstraZeneca (Peter Newman)
  • AxoSim (Ben Cappiello)
  • CAAT-Europe (Marcel Leist)
  • CAPB Brown University (Jeff Morgan)
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Jennifer Rosowski)
  • CN Bio (David Hughes, Tomasz Kostrzewski)
  • CoEBoC, Tampere University (Jussi Koivumäki)
  • Competence Centre TEDD (Katarzyna Kopanska)
  • Corteva (Raja Settivari)
  • CSEM (Gilles Weder)
  • ECVAM (Maurice Whelan)
  • EFSA (Jean-Lou Dorne, George Kass)
  • EMA (Stefano Ponzano)
  • Emulate (Lorna Ewart)
  • ESTIV (Helena Kandarova)
  • EUROoCS (Albert van den Berg)
  • EUSAAT (Dagmar Jirova, Winfried Neuhaus)
  • FDA (Suzanne Fitzpatrick)
  • FIOCRUZ (Bruno Dallagiovanna Muniz, Octavio Presgrave)
  • German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) (Tanja Schwerdtle)
  • Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (Lucilia Mouries)
  • Hesperos Inc. (James Hickman, Mike Shuler)
  • InSphero (Armin Wolf)
  • Institute for Human Organ and Disease Model Technologies (Janny van den Eijnden)
  • Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (Wendelyn Jones)
  • IQ MPS Affiliate (Jason Ekert)
  • Johns Hopkins University (Deok-Ho Kim)
  • Johns Hopkins University, CAAT (Thomas Hartung, Lena Smirnova)
  • Lena Biosciences (Jelena Vukasinovic)
  • MB Research Laboratories (George DeGeorge)
  • MIMETAS (Paul Vulto)
  • NA3RsC (Megan LaFollette)
  • NICETAM (Nicole Kleinstreuer)
  • NIH (Dan Tagle)
  • Obatala Sciences (Trivia Frazier)
  • NETRI (Thibault Honegger)
  • Nortis (Thomas Neumann)
  • React4Life (Maurizio Aiello)
  • Roche (Adrian Roth)
  • School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University (Zhongze Gu)
  • The Simulated Human (Charité and TU Berlin) and Charité 3R (Jennifer Rosowski)
  • SLAS (Cvic Innocent)
  • TissUse (Uwe Marx)
  • Unilever (Paul Carmichael)
  • University of Pittsburgh – Drug Discovery Institute (Lans Taylor)
  • University of Washington – Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication (Elaine Faustman)
  • Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Anthony Atala)
  • Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Donald Elliot Ingber)

Program Committee

  • Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati)
  • Kristin Bircsak (MIMETAS)
  • Lorna Ewart (Emulate)
  • Elaine Faustman (University of Washington)
  • Erika Gyoervary (EUROoCS)
  • Sarah Hedtrich (The University of British Columbia)
  • Philip Hewitt (Merck)
  • Ming-I Huang (Aracari Biosciences)
  • Seiichi Ishida (NIHS, Japan)
  • Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
  • Deok-Ho Kim (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Peter Loskill (EUROoCS)
  • Hitoshi Naraoka (Astellas Pharma)
  • Thomas Neumann (University of Washington)
  • Monica Piergiovanni (JRC)
  • Marco Rasponi (EUROoCS)
  • Silvia Scaglione (React4Life)
  • Mike Shuler (Hesperos Inc.)
  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT) (Chair)
  • Thomas Steger-Hartmann (Bayer AG)
  • Martin Trapecar (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Lenie van den Broek (MIMETAS)
  • Tamara Zietek (Eurogroup for Animals)

Fundraising Committee

  • Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati)
  • Zhongze Gu (Southeast University)
  • Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.) (Chair)
  • Seiichi Ishida (NIHS, Japan)
  • Roger Kamm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
  • Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero)
  • Lindsay Marshall (Humane Society International)
  • Uwe Marx (TissUse)
  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Lans Taylor (University of Pittsburgh – Drug Discovery Institute)

Hosting Committee

  • Elizabeth Baker (PCRM – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
  • Heejoon Choi (Curi Bio)
  • James Coon (Nortis)
  • Rosa Dickens (Nortis)
  • Kethanh Duong (University of Washington)
  • Elaine Faustman (University of Washington)
  • Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Edward Kelly (University of Washington)
  • Caroline Lorentzen (Nortis)
  • Thomas Neumann (Nortis)
  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Sally Thompson-Iritani (University of Washington)

Scientific Advisory Committee

  • Philip Hewitt (Merck) (Chair)
  • Mario Beilmann (Boehringer Ingelheim)
  • Abhinav Bhushan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
  • Murat Cirit (JavelinBio)
  • Benoit Cox (UCB Biopharma SPRL)
  • Arno Gutleb (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Lorna Ewart (Emulate)
  • Arno Gutleb (Invitrolize)
  • Kosuke Harada (Takeda)
  • Sarah Hedtrich (The University of British Columbia)
  • Reyk Horland (TissUse GmbH)
  • Helena Kandarova (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
  • Deok-Ho Kim (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  • Hiroshi Kimura (Micro/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University)
  • Hajime Kojima (NIHS Japan)
  • Stefan Kustermann (Roche)
  • Benoit Maisonneuve (NETRI)
  • Gavin Maxwell (Unilever)
  • Donna Mendrick (FDA)
  • Shannon Mumenthaler (Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine)
  • Hitoshi Naraoka (Astellas Pharma)
  • Monica Piergiovanni (European Commission (EURL ECVAM))
  • Sebastian Prill (AstraZeneca)
  • Carolina Romero (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Veronika Rozehnal (Daiichi Sankyo)
  • Silvia Scaglione (React4Life)
  • Jens Christian Schwamborn (Organo Therapeutics)
  • James Shoemaker (Lena Biosciences)
  • Thomas Steger-Hartmann (Bayer AG)
  • Tamara Zietek (Eurogroup for Animals)

International MPS Society Governing Board

  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT) (Chair)
  • Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero) (Secretary)
  • Sofia Batiste Leite (ECVAM)
  • Zhongze Gu (Southeast University in China)
  • Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
  • Peter Loskill (EUROoCS)
  • Octavio Presgrave (BRACVAM)
  • Dan Tagle (NIH)*
  • Adrian Roth (Roche)

*Non-voting member

  • James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.) (Chair-Elect)
  • Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati) (Treasurer)
  • Suzanne Fitzpatrick (FDA)
  • Noo Li Jeon (Seoul National University)
  • Marcel Leist (CAAT-Europe)
  • Michael Shuler (Cornell University)
  • Alastair Stewart (University of Melbourne)
  • Evita van de Steeg (TNO)
  • Seiichi Ishida (NIHS Japan)
  • Chrisna Gouws (North-West University)