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)
- Kevin Tabury (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre—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)