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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)

2025 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)
  • Jochem Louisse (European Food Safety Authority—Italy)
  • Catherine Mahony (Procter & Gamble—United Kingdom)
  • Rosalinde Masereeuw (Utrecht University—The Netherlands)
  • Birgit Mertens (Sciensano—Belgium)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Khoon Lim (University of Otago Christchurch—New Zealand)
  • Hanry Yu (Agency for Science, Technology and Research—Singapore)

Fundraising Committee

  • Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati)
  • Zaozao Chen
  • Kathleen Conlee
  • Lorna Ewart
  • Isabelle Guelinckx
  • Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
  • Chris Harris
  • James Hickman (Hesperos Inc.) (Chair)
  • Seiichi Ishida (NIHS, Japan)
  • Wendelyn Jones
  • Roger Kamm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Helena Kandarova
  • Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
  • Ayse Kose
  • Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero)
  • 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
  • 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 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)