2026 Scientific Program Committee
New term and positions started July 1, 2025
- Co-Chairs: Lorna Ewart (Emulate) and Magdalena Kasendra (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center)
- Murat Cirit
- Evita van de Steeg
- Philip Hewitt
- Shannon Mumenthaler
- Gavin Maxwell
- Hitoshi Naraoka
- Hajima Kojima
- Tadahiro Shinozawa
- Sarah Hedtrich
- Timothy Hopkins
- Arno Gutleb
- Lindsay Marshall
- Abhinav Bhushan
- Tamara Zietek
- Jenn Perkins
- Benoit Maisonneuve
- Roger Kamm
- Adrian Roth
- Sangeeta Khare
- Seiichi Ishisa
- Tasi Pereira
- Eva Dehne
- Silvia Scaglione
- Hagar Labouta
- Abhishek Jain
- Elizabeth Crist
2026 Fundraising Committee
- Chair: Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero)
- Riccardo Barrile (University of Cincinnati)
- Zaozao Chen (Columbia University)
- Lorna Ewart (Emulate)
- Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
- James Hickman (Hesperos)
- Seiichi Ishida (NIHS, Japan)
- Wendelyn Jones (ILSI)
- Roger Kamm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Helena Kandarova (ESTIV)
- Magdalena Kasendra (Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati)
- Carolina Lucchesi (ATCC)
- Lindsay Marshall (Humane World for Animals)
- Uwe Marx (TissUse)
- Soumya Mitra (AbbVie)
- Beatrice Muriuki (Moderna)
- Winfried Neuhaus (AIT)
- Martin Raasch (Dynamic42)
- Adrian Roth (Roche)
- Lena Smirnova (Johns Hopkins University, CAAT)
- Lans Taylor (University of Pittsburgh – Drug Discovery Institute)
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)
- 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)