2025 Scientific Program Committee
- Sonja Beken (Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products—Belgium)
- Elisabet Berggren (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission—Italy)
- Suzanne Fitzpatrick (Food and Drug Administration—USA)
- Oliver Frey (InSphero—Switzerland)
- Liesbet Geris (Université de Liège—Belgium)
- Chrisna Gouws (North-West University—South Africa)
- Linda Griffith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology—USA)
- Arno Gutleb (Invitrolize—Luxembourg)
- Philip Hewitt (Merck—Germany)
- Helena Kandarova (Slovak Academy of Sciences—Slovakia)
- Hajime Kojima (Japanese Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods—Japan)
- Marcel Leist (University of Konstanz—Germany)
- Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero—Switzerland)
- Khoon Lim (University of Otago Christchurch—New Zealand)
- Jochem Louisse (European Food Safety Authority—Italy)
- Catherine Mahony (Procter & Gamble—United Kingdom)
- Rosalinde Masereeuw (Utrecht University—The Netherlands)
- Birgit Mertens (Sciensano—Belgium)
- Liliana Moreira Teixeira (University of Twente-The Netherlands)
- Christine Mummery (Leiden University Medical Centre-The Netherlands)
- Yaakov Nahmias (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem—Israel)
- Gladys Ouedraogo (L’Oréal—France)
- Jianhua Qin (Chinese Academy of Sciences—China)
- Sebastian Prill (AstraZeneca—Sweden)
- Monica Piergiovanni (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission—Italy)
- Marian Raschke (Bayer—Germany)
- Marco Rasponi (Politecnico di Milano-Italy)
- Stephan Schuell (Emulate—Germany)
- Michael Shuler (Cornell University—USA)
- Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University—USA)
- Laura Suter-Dick (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland—Switzerland)
- Benjamin Thierry (University of South Australia—Australia)
- Mathieu Vinken (Vrije Universiteit Brussel—Belgium)
- Marize Valadares (Universidade Federal de Goiás—Brazil)
- Andries van der Meer (University of Twente—The Netherlands)
- Vincent van Duinen (Mimetas—The Netherlands)
- Hanry Yu (Agency for Science, Technology and Research—Singapore)
2025 Fundraising Committee
- James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.) (Chair)
- Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero)
- Zaozao Chen
- Kathleen Conlee
- Lorna Ewart
- Isabelle Guelinckx
- Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
- Chris Harris
- Seiichi Ishida (NIHS, Japan)
- Wendelyn Jones
- Roger Kamm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Helena Kandarova
- Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
- Ayse Kose
- 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
2025 Hosting Committee
- Sonja Beken (Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products—Belgium)
- Sophie Bekisz (Université de Liège—Belgium)
- Dries Braeken (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre-Katholieke Universiteit Leuven—Belgium)
- Isabelle Guelinckx (International Life Sciences Institute-Europe—Belgium)
- Ayse Kose (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven—Belgium)
- Julen Sanz Serrano (Vrije Universiteit Brussel—Belgium)
- Andrés Tabernilla (Vrije Universiteit Brussel—Belgium)
- Mieke Van Mulders (Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products—Belgium)
- Julia Dominika Zajac (Vrije Universiteit Brussel—Belgium)
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 Board of Directors
- James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.) (President)
- Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero) (President-Elect)
- Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati) (Secretary)
- 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)
New term and positions started July 1, 2025
- Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT) (Past President)
- Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati) (Treasurer)
- 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)