Editors for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Senior editors
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Utpal Banerjee
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Utpal Banerjee is the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. He also serves as Co-Director of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and as Director of the UCLA Interdepartmental Minor in Biomedical Research. He is a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and is affiliated with the Brain Research Institute and the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Banerjee’s laboratory has worked on several oncogenic and metabolic signals that are important in development and disease. The lab studies the effects of systemic signals on the maintenance of blood progenitors in Drosophila, and the role of metabolic pathways in the control of proliferation and differentiation in the preimplantation mouse embryo.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- haematopoiesis
- cancer biology
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
- mouse
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Marianne E Bronner
California Institute of Technology, United States
Marianne Bronner is a developmental biologist with a long-standing interest in specification, migration and differentiation of neural crest stem cells. Using a pan-vertebrate approach, her lab has been systematically studying the gene regulatory network responsible for neural crest formation and evolutionary origin. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Marianne’s family escaped to Austria during the Hungarian revolution when she was a small child. She received her ScB in Biophysics from Brown University and then a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. She assumed her first faculty position at the University of California, Irvine, before moving to Caltech in 1996. Marianne received the Conklin Medal from The Society for Developmental Biology in 2013, the Women in Cell Biology Senior Award from the American Society for Cell Biology in 2012, as well as several teaching awards from her institution. She was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural crest
- peripheral nervous system
- placodes
- developmental neurobiology
- vertebrate development biology
- cell lineage
- cell migration
- vertebrate evolution
- Experimental organism
- chick
- lamprey
- zebrafish
- xenopus
- Competing interests statement
- Marianne Bronner is employed by the California Institute of Technology and receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is on the board of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and member of several other societies (e.g., Society for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Cell Biology, Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Differentiation). In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, she is Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Biology and serves actively as monitoring editor of Journal of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology of the Cell, PLOS Biology and PNAS. She is presently on the boards of the Sontag Foundation and Curci Foundation as well as the Conference Evaluation Committee of the Gordon Research Conferences.
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Sean Morrison
HHMI, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
The Morrison laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell function in the nervous and hematopoietic systems. Dr Morrison obtained his BSc in biology and chemistry from Dalhousie University (1991), then completed a PhD in immunology at Stanford University (1996), and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurobiology at Caltech (1999). From 1999 to 2011, Dr Morrison was at the University of Michigan where he Directed their Center for Stem Cell Biology. Recently, Dr Morrison moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he is the founding Director of the new Children’s Research Institute. Dr Morrison’s laboratory studies the mechanisms that regulate stem cell self-renewal and stem cell aging, as well as the role these mechanisms play in cancer. Dr Morrison was a Searle Scholar (2000–2003), was named in Technology Review Magazine’s list of 100 young innovators (2002), received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2003), the International Society for Hematology and Stem Cell’s McCulloch and Till Award (2007), the American Association of Anatomists Harland Mossman Award (2008), and a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Aging. Dr Morrison has also been active in public policy issues surrounding stem cells. For example, he has twice testified before Congress and was a leader in the successful “Proposal 2” campaign to protect stem cell research in Michigan’s state constitution.
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer biology
- tissue stem cells
- hematopoietic system
- blood
- Competing interests statement
- Sean Morrison receives funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. In addition to being a Senior editor for eLife, he is a member of the editorial boards of Cell Stem Cell, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the EMBO Journal, the Faculty of 1000, Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Cancer Cell, EMBO Reports, and Stem Cell Reports. He serves on the scientific advisory boards of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the University of Washington Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, the University of California, Los Angeles Broad Stem Cell Research Center, and the Common Fund for the National Institutes of Health Center for Regenerative Medicine. He is President-Elect of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He is a co-founder and shareholder in OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, a consultant and shareholder in G1 Therapeutics, a shareholder in Fate Therapeutics, and a consultant for Molecular Devices.
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Maarten van Lohuizen
The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Netherlands
Maarten van Lohuizen received his PhD at the NKI/University of Amsterdam in 1992 studying cooperating oncogenes with Anton Berns. After a postoc at the University of California, San Francisco, he started his lab at the NKI in 1995 and heads the Division of Molecular Genetics. He also is a professor at the University of Amsterdam Medical Center, department Clinical Genetics & Oncogenomics, focusing on epigenetics and stem cells. Maarten studies epigenetic master switches that control cell and tissue development, and how these go awry in cancer. Specifically, his group focuses on the mechanism of stable inherited transcriptional repression by Polycomb group proteins and the effects of deregulation of Polycomb genes on development, cell cycle control, cancer formation and stem cell maintenance. Current focus is on Glioblastoma, non-small cell lung cancer and mesothelioma, using state of the art mouse models and genetic screening and drug screening to find new effective epigenetic drug combinations to target these cancers. Maarten was elected as European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) member (2004); Member of Academia Europaea (2015) and Member of the Oncode Institute (2017).
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epigenetics
- cancer biology
- stem cells
- chromatin
- Polycomb group proteins
- Competing interests statement
- Maarten van Lohuizen receives funding from The Dutch Cancer Society (KWF), the Netherlands Organization of Scientific research (NWO), The Gravity program, Cancer Genomics Centre Netherlands (CGC.nl), the European Research Council and the Oncode Institute. He is editorial board member of Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, Epigenetics & Chromatin, Stem Cell reports and the Faculty of 1000.
Reviewing editors
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Paola Arlotta
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- murine cerebral cortex development
- In vitro models
- 3D cerebral organoids
- neural stem cells
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Clare Blackburn
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- thymus development, maintainance, and regeneration
- thymic epithelial progenitor cell biology and regulation
- differentiation of pluripotent cells
- transcription factor networks
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Déborah Bourc'his
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epigenetics
- DNA methylation
- genomic imprinting
- transposons
- reproduction
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Andrew Brack
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- muscle stem cells
- regeneration
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Margaret Buckingham
Institut Pasteur, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiogenesis
- muscle stem cells
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Michael Buszczak
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- chromatin
- germ cells
- mRNA translation
- stem cells
- stem cell niches
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Bruce Edgar
University of Utah, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell cycle
- cell growth and growth signaling
- stem cell biology
- development
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Elaine Fuchs
Rockefeller University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- skin stem cells
- stem cells
- tissue morphogenesis
- epithelial polarity
- transcriptional regulation during development
- cytoskeletal dynamics and adhesion
- epithelial cancers
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Fred Gage
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- human stem cells
- neurogenesis
- Experimental organism
- human
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Holger Gerhardt
Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Germany
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- vascular development and patterning
- vascular biology
- angiogenesis
- tumour microenvironment
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- zebrafish
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Francois Guillemot
Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neural stem cells
- neural development
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Richard P Harvey
The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- mammalian heart
- congenital heart diseases
- cardiac regeneration
- cardiac gene regulatory networks
- cardiac development
- developmental biology
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Valerie Horsley
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epithelial stem cells
- adipocyte stem cells
- adipose tissue
- epithelial-mesenchymal interactions
- mechanical regulation of tissues
- tissue regeneration
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Beate Lichtenberger
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs)
- fibroblast-mediated skin pathologies
- skin cancer
- stem cell fate decisions
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Ravindra Majeti
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoietic stem cell function
- leukemia
- Experimental organism
- human
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Edward Morrisey
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- lung development
- cardiac development
- vascular development
- regulation of gene transcription
- wnt signaling
- GATA
- forkhead
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Roel Nusse
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- wnt signaling
- stem cells
- tissue repair
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Martin Pera
University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- regenerative medicine
- tissue stem cells
- pluripotent stem cell
- Experimental organism
- human
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Jayaraj Rajagopal
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- lung development
- epithelial regeneration
- lung stem cells
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Jeremy Reiter
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cilia
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Elizabeth Robertson
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- transcriptional regulators
- mammalian development
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Lee L Rubin
Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- spinal muscular atrophy
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- huntington's disease
- reprogramming
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- regeneration
- stem cells
- Experimental organism
- planaria
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Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
Washington University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- gastrulation
- vertebrate embryogenesis
- patterning
- cell movement
- cell signalling
- morphogenesis
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Allan Spradling
Carnegie Institution for Science, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- stem cell differentiation and morphogenesis
- ovary
- female reproduction
- polyploid cell
- epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
- mouse
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Lorenz Studer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- human embryonic stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- human disease modeling
- cell therapy
- Experimental organism
- human
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiac and bone regeneration
- tissue engineering
- in vitro models of development and disease
- biophysical regulation of stem cells
- Experimental organism
- human
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Richard M White
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer
- metastasis
- genetics
- melanocyte
- melanoma
- neural crest
- Experimental organism
- human
- zebrafish
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Yukiko M Yamashita
HHMI, University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- stem cell niche
- asymmetric division
- spindle orientation
- centrosome
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Hao Zhu
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- mechanisms of tissue repair and organ regeneration
- liver cancer
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- epigenetics
- polyploidy
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
