2026 Scientific Program Committee
- Co-Chairs: Lorna Ewart (Emulate) and Magdalena Kasendra (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center)
- Murat Cirit (Javelin Biotech)
- Evita van de Steeg (TNO)
- Philip Hewitt (Merck KGaA)
- Shannon Mumenthaler (University of Southern California and Ellison Medical Institute)
- Gavin Maxwell (Unilever)
- Hitoshi Naraoka (Astellas Pharma Inc.)
- Hajime Kojima (National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo (NIHS))
- Tadahiro Shinozawa (Takeda Pharmaceuticals)
- Sarah Hedtrich (School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia)
- Timothy Hopkins (Queen Mary University of London)
- Arno Gutleb (Invitrolize)
- Lindsay Marshall (Humane World for Animals)
- Abhinav Bhushan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- Tamara Zietek (Doctors Against Animal Experiments)
- Jenn Perkins (28bio)
- Benoît Maisonneuve (Netri)
- Roger Kamm (Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Adrian Roth (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd)
- Sangeeta Khare (US FDA)
- Seiichi Ishida (National Institute of Health Sciences)
- Taci Pereira (Biotech Entrepreneur)
- Eva Dehne (TissUse GmbH)
- Silvia Scaglione (React4Life)
- Hagar Labouta (University of Toronto)
- Abhishek Jain (Texas A&M University)
- Elizabeth (Lizzy) Crist (AIM Biotech)
2026 Local Organizing Committee
- Danilo Tagle (NIH/NCATS)
- Suzanne Fitzpatrick (FDA HHS)
- Darwin Reyes-Hernandez (NIST)
- Passley Hargrove (NIH/NCATS)
- Carolina Lucchesi (ATCC)
- Graham Marsh (C-Path)
- Lena Smirnova (John Hopkins University)
- Dmitriy Krepkiy (NIH/NCATS)
- Morgan Halman (Mimetas)
- Joshua Hunsberger (RegenMed Development Organization)
- Madhu Lal-Nag (InSphero)
- Ursula Koniges (NASA)
2026 Fundraising Committee
- Chair: Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero)
- Zaozao Chen
- Kathleen Conlee
- Lorna Ewart
- Isabelle Guelinckx
- Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
- Chris Harris
- James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.)
- Seiichi Ishida (NIHS, Japan)
- Wendelyn Jones
- Roger Kamm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Helena Kandarova
- Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
- Ayse Kosee
- Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati)
- Lindsay Marshall (Humane Society International)
- Uwe Marx (TissUse)
- Torsten Mayr
- Soumya Mitra
- Winfried Neuhaus
- Martin Raasch
- Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
- Lans Taylor (University of Pittsburgh – Drug Discovery Institute)
- Albert Vandenberg
- Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij (EUROoCS)
- Mathieu Vinken
- Julia Zajac
Scientific Advisory Committee
- Chair: Philip Hewitt (Merck)
- 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 Board of Directors
- James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.) (President)
- Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero) (President-Elect)
- Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati) (Secretary)
- Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT) (Past President)
- Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati) (Treasurer)
- Sofia Batiste Leite (ECVAM)
- Zhongze Gu (Southeast University in China)
- Elizabeth Baker (Dynavet Solutions)
- Peter Loskill (EUROoCS)
- Joseph Wu (Stanford University)
- Lorna Ewart (Emulate, Inc.)
- Zaozao Chen (Columbia University)
- Adrian Roth (Roche)
- Suzanne Fitzpatrick (FDA)
- Noo Li Jeon (Seoul National University)
- Roger Kamm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Michael Shuler (Cornell University)
- Alastair Stewart (University of Melbourne)
- Evita van de Steeg (TNO)
- Seiichi Ishida (NIHS Japan)
- Chrisna Gouws (North-West University)
New term and positions started July 1, 2025