2022 Committees

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Steering Committee

  • Altex (Sonja von Aulock)
  • Aracari Biosciences (Ming-I Huang)
  • ASCCT (Kristie Sullivan)
  • AstraZeneca (Peter Newman)
  • AxoSim (Ben Capiello)
  • CAAT-Europe (Marcel Leist)
  • CAPB Brown University (Jeff Morgan)
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Ida Retter)
  • CN Bio (David Hughes, Tomasz Kostrzewski)
  • CoEBoC, Tampere University (Jussi Koivumäki)
  • Competence Centre TEDD (Katarzyna Kopanska)
  • Corteva (Raja Settivari)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Pelin Candarlioglu (GSK)
  • Philip Hewitt (Merck)
  • Ming-I Huang (Aracari Biosciences)
  • Helena Kandarova (ESTIV)
  • Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
  • Deok-Ho Kim (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Stefan Kustermann (Roche)
  • Peter Loskill (EUROoCS)
  • Donna Mendrick (FDA)
  • Hitoshi Naraoka (Astellas Pharma)
  • Thomas Neumann (Nortis)
  • AB Pant (CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research)
  • Silvia Scaglione (React4Life)
  • Mike Shuler (Hesperos Inc.)
  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT) (Chair)
  • Thomas Steger-Hartmann (Bayer AG)
  • Martin Trapecar (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Joachim Wiest (cellasys GmbH)
  • Tamara Zietek (Doctors Against Animal Experiments)

Fundraising Committee

  • Ben Cappiello (AxoSim)
  • Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.) (Chair)
  • Wendelyn Jones (IAFNS)
  • Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
  • Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero)
  • Winfried Neuhaus (EUSAAT)
  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Martin Stephens (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Lans Taylor (University of Pittsburgh – Drug Discovery Institute)

Hosting Committee

  • David Bode (Obatala Sciences)
  • Ben Cappiello (AxoSim)
  • Camila Januario (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)

International MPS Society Planning Committee

  • Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati)
  • David Bode (Obatala Sciences)
  • Bruno Dallagiovanna (FIOCRUZ)
  • Suzanne Fitzpatrick (FDA)
  • Zhongze Gu (Southeast University in China)
  • Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Philip Hewitt (Merck)
  • Reyk Horland (TissUse)
  • Noo Li Jeon (Seoul National University)
  • Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
  • Stefan Kustermann (Roche)
  • Peter Loskill (EUROoCS)
  • Donna Mendrick (FDA)
  • Giorgia Pallocca (University of Konstanz)
  • Octavio Presgrave (BRACVAM)
  • James T. Shoemaker (Lena Biosciences)
  • Mike Shuler (Hesperos Inc.)
  • Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT) (Chair)
  • Alastair Stewart (University of Melbourne)
  • Dan Tagle (NIH)
  • Janny van den Eijnden (EUROoCS)
  • Jelena Vukasinovic (Lena Biosciences)
  • Yu Shrike Zhang (Harvard University)
  • Tamara Zietek (Doctors Against Animal Experiments)