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Scientific Program Committee

Louise Purton (Australia) - Chair
St. Vincent's Institute

Mick Milsom (Germany) - President
HI-STEM gGmbH

Jennifer Trowbridge (USA) - Vice President
Jackson Laboratory

Teresa Bowman (USA)
Albert Einstein College Of Medicine

Emery Bresnick (USA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Konstantinos Kokkaliaris (Germany)
Dr Senckenberg Institute of Pathology

Hector Mayani (Mexico)
IMSS National Medical Center

Ayako Nakamura-Ishizu (Japan)
Tokyo Women's Medical University

Diana Passaro (France)
Institute Cochin

Filipe Pereira (Sweden)
Lund University

Beth Psaila (UK)
Oxford University

Michael Rieger (Germany)
Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt

Alejo Rodriguez Fraticelli (Spain)
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona

Judith Zaugg (Switzerland)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Local Organizing Committee

Michael Rieger, Chair

Marieke Essers, Co-Chair

Baldus, Claudia

Christopher Baum

Lars Bullinger

Nina Cabezas

Konstanze Döhner

Boris Feshe

Hartmut Geiger

Florian Heidel

Andreas Hochhaus

Hannes Klump

Henning Klusmann

Konstantinos Kokkaliaris

Daniela Krause

Michael Kühn

Claudia Lengerke

Markus Manz

Carsen Müller-Tidow

Irmela Jeremias

Thomas Oellerich

Ingo Roeder

Axel Schambach

Rebekka Schneider

Timm Schroeder

Hubert Serve

Veronika Sexl

Marion Subklewe

Torsten Tonn

Andreas Trumpp

Hanna Uckelmann

Claudia Waskow

Judith Zaugg

Johannes Zuber

Finance Committee

Katherine King (USA) - Treasurer
Baylor College of Medicine

Jennifer Trowbridge (USA) - Vice President
Jackson Laboratory

Anna Beaudin (USA)
University of Utah

Vincenzo Calvanese (Spain)
Josep Carreras Leukaemia research institute

Marieke Essers (Germany)
HI-STEM

Georges Lacaud (UK)
CRUK Manchester Institute

Elisa Laurenti (UK)
University of Cambridge division Haematology

Larry Luchsinger (USA)
New York Blood Center

Eric Pietras (USA)
University of Colorado Denver

Michael Rieger (Germany)
Goethe University, Frankfurt

Christopher Sturgeon (USA)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Pam Wenzel (USA)
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Momoko Yoshimoto (USA)
Western Michigan Univ. Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine

Awards Committee

Shannon McKinney-Freeman (USA) - Chair
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Keisuke Ito (USA)
Albert Einstein College Of Medicine - Montefiore Medical Center

Dave Kent (UK)
University of York

James Palis (USA)
University of Rochester

Katrin Ottersbach (UK)
University of Edinburgh

David Traver (USA)
Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's

Eirini Trompouki (France)
Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice

Carl Walkley (Australia)
Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Publications Committee

William (Bill) Grey (USA) - Chair
University of York

Alessandro Donada (France) - Vice Chair
Institute Curie

Jennifer Trowbridge (USA)
Jackson Laboratory

Nithya Balasundaram (Belgium)
DDUV - UCLouvain

Kavita Bisht (Australia)
Mater Research

Charlotta Boiers (Sweden)
Lund University

Megan Bywater (Australia)
QIMR Berghofer

John Crispino (USA)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Adrienne Dorrance (USA)
University of Utah

Roi Gazit (Israel)
Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev

Ran Jing (USA)
Rutgers Cancer Institute

Katherine MacNamara (USA)
Albany Medical College

Simranpreet Kaur (Australia)
Mater Research - The University of Queensland

Yan Liu (USA)
Northwestern University

Wenjuan Ma (UK)
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge

Ahmed Waraky (Sweden)
Gothenburg University

New Investigators Committee

Alba Rodriguez Meira (USA) - Chair
Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Anne Stolz (USA) - Vice Chair
Haunersche Children’s Clinic

Camille Malouf (Canada) - Immediate Past Chair
IRCM - Montreal Clinical Research Institute

Elisa Laurenti (UK)
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Alexandra Bacquelaine Veloso (Belgium)
KU Leuven

Fanny-Meï Cloarec-Ung (Canada)
IRIC - Université de Montréal

Lauren Harmon (USA)
Van Andel Institute

Maria Jassinskaja (Sweden)
Lund University

Ran Jing (USA)
Rutgers Cancer Institute

Jingjing Li (Australia)
UNSW

Els Mansell (Sweden)
Lund University

Jasmin Rettkowski (Germany)
Max Planck Institute

Marcel GE Rommel (USA)
University of California Santa Cruz

Kohei Shiroshita (Japan)
National Center for Global Health and Medicine

Vu Tran (USA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Junior Faculty Committee

Nick van Gastel (Belgium) - Chair
de Duve Institute, UCLouvain

Katherine Bridge (UK) - Vice Chair
University of York

Christine Zhang (USA) - Vice Chair
Northwestern University

Grant Challen (USA)
Washington University in St. Louis

Hélène Gleitz (Netherlands)
Erasmus Medical Center

Lev Kats (Australia)
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Gemma Kelly (Australia)
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Konstantinos Kokkaliaris (Germany)
Dr Senckenberg Institute of Pathology

Masayuki Yamashita (USA)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Johanna Melo-Cardenas (USA)
Northwestern University

Diu Nguyen (UK)
Barts Cancer Institute

Arthur Svendsen (Netherlands)
Sanquin

Nominating Committee

Jennifer Trowbridge (USA) - Chair
Jackson Laboratory

Kristina Kirschner (USA)
Mayo Clinic

Pablo Menendez (Spain)
Institut de Recerca Contral La Leucemia Josep Carreras

Tao Cheng (China)
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Olaf Heidenreich (Netherlands)
Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

Grant Rowe (USA)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Stephanie Xie (Canada)
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre University Health Network

Member Engagement and Outreach Committee

Ritika Saxena (Australia) - Chair
Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Pamela Wenzel (USA) - Vice Chair
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Eric Pietras (USA) - Board Liaison
University of Colorado, Anschutz

Stephanie C de Barros (USA)
University of California Los Angeles

Terri Cain (USA)
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences

Gemma Kelly (Australia)
WEHI – Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Naveed Tavakol (USA)
Columbia University