Editors for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

We aim to review advances in all areas of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, including the discovery of new mechanisms that regulate stem cell function, organogenesis, and tissue regeneration. We are also interested in clinical trials or other clinical observations that reveal new approaches to therapy or new biological insights. Read the latest research in this subject area.

Senior editors

  1. Sofia J Araújo

    University of Barcelona, Spain

    Sofia J Araújo is Associate Professor in Genetics, at the Department of Genetics Microbiology and Statistics, University of Barcelona, where she leads the genetics of cell behaviour research group. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London and did postdoctoral training at King’s College London and IBMB-CSIC in Barcelona. Her research at the University of Barcelona is centered in cell migration and branching morphogenesis, with the aim of understanding how branched organs develop and contribute to living organism homeostasis as well as the ageing process. She is currently head of the Genetics section of the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, and board member of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology. She also holds a Diploma in Science Communication from Birkbeck College, London, and has extensive experience in teaching, communication, and training of scientists on better ways of bringing science to the public.

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Developmental Biology
    Neuroscience
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    neurodevelopment
    DNA repair
    single-cell branching
    cell migration
    tubulogenesis
    organogenesis
    Experimental organism
    D. melanogaster
    Competing interests statement
    Sofia J Araújo's research is currently funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR).
  2. 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
    D. melanogaster
    mouse

Reviewing editors

  1. Cynthia L Andoniadou

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    stem cells
    endocrine
    pituitary gland
    adrenal gland
    paracrine signalling
    tumours
    Experimental organism
    human
    mouse
  2. Erika A Bach

    New York University School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    stem cell self-renewal
    stem cell differentiation
    cell competition
    stem cell competition
    transdifferentiation
    stem cell aging
    sex determination
    Experimental organism
    D. melanogaster
  3. Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam

    ICMR Emeritus Scientist, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    Cancer Biology
    Cell Biology
    Developmental Biology
    Epidemiology and Global Health
    Genetics and Genomics
    Immunology and Inflammation
    Neuroscience
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    disease biology
    diabetes
    aging
    omnics
    calcium signaling
    endocrine disruptors
    probiotics
    molecular medicine
  4. Audrey M Bernstein

    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cornea
    scarring
    fibrosis
    glaucoma
    integrins
    myofibroblast
  5. Anita Bhattacharyya

    University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Neuroscience
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    neural development
    neurodevelopmental disorders
    neurogenesis
    iPSCs
    Down syndrome
    intellectual disability
    Experimental organism
    human
  6. Joshua Brickman

    Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem), Denmark

    Expertise
    Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    embryonic stem cells
    endoderm
    pluripotency
    lineage priming
    transcription factors
    Experimental organism
    mouse
    Xenopus
  7. Marion Brunck

    Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

    Expertise
    Immunology and Inflammation
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    immunology
    neutrophils
    breastmilk immunity
    flow cytometry
    biotechnology
    synthetic biology
  8. Caroline E Burns

    Boston Children's Hospital, United States

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cardiopharyngeal
    cardiovascular disease modeling
    cardiac development
    cardiac function
    cardiovascular regeneration
    cardiomyocyte proliferation
    Experimental organism
    zebrafish
  9. Michael Buszczak

    UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    stem cells
    germ cells
    ribosomes
    mRNA translation
    chromatin
    DNA damage
    meiosis
    Experimental organism
    D. melanogaster
    human
  10. Alesha Castillo

    New York University Bioengineering Institute, United States

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    bone
    mechanobiology
    mechanical loading
    fracture repair
    skeletal stem and progenitor cells
    osteoblasts
    osteogenesis
    aging
  11. Hina W Chaudhry

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cardiac regeneration
    cardiomyocytes
    developmental genetics
    stem cell biology
    regenerative biology
  12. Graziana Colaianni

    University of Bari, Italy

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Cell Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    bone
    osteoporosis
    muscle
    sarcopenia
    cartilage
    muscle atrophy
    Experimental organism
    mouse
    human
  13. Danelle Devenport

    Princeton University, United States

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cell polarity
    planar cell polarity
    epidermis
    skin
    oriented cell divisions
    morphogenesis
    epithelia
    Experimental organism
    mammals
  14. Kevin Eade

    Lowy Medical Research Institute, United States

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    Research focus
    developmental biology
    developmental neurobiology
    organoids
    retina
    metabolism
    directed differentiation
    disease modeling
  15. Lydia W S Finley

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Cancer Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cell metabolism
    cancer
    stem cells
    cell fate
  16. Elaine Fuchs

    Rockefeller University, United States

    Expertise
    Stem Cells and Regenerative 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
  17. Florent Ginhoux

    Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore

    Expertise
    Immunology and Inflammation
    Neuroscience
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    dendritic cells
    monocytes
    macrophages
    development
    hematopoiesis
    Experimental organism
    human
    mouse
  18. Rebekah L. Gundry

    University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States

    Expertise
    Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    mass spectrometry
    cell surface glycoproteins
    proteomics
    glycomics
    heart failure
    stem cell derived cardiomyocytes
    biomarkers
  19. Richard P Harvey

    The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    Developmental Biology
    Genetics and Genomics
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cardiovascular
    stem cells
    developmental biology
    tissue regeneration
    fibrosis
    single cell biology
    Experimental organism
    mouse
    human
    zebrafish
  20. 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
  21. Maneesha S Inamdar

    Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Cell Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    pluripotent stem cells
    hematopoiesis
    vascular
    organelles
    mitochondria
    vesicular trafficking
    cytoskeleton
    protein sorting
  22. Yaoting Ji

    Wuhan University, China

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Cell Biology
    Research focus
    osteoporosis
    obesity
    stem cell differentiation
    aging
    beiging
    skeletal mineralization
    bone resorption
  23. Melanie Königshoff

    University of Colorado, United States

    Expertise
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Medicine
    Cell Biology
    Research focus
    lung regeneration
    wnt signaling
    pulmonary fibrosis
    chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    epithelial cell biology
    Experimental organism
    human
    mouse
  24. Carole LaBonne

    Northwestern University, United States

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    neural crest
    stem cells
    Experimental organism
    Xenopus
  25. Rauf Latif

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    metabolic syndrome
    thyroid
    GPCRs
    glycoprotein hormone receptors
    TSH receptor
    thyroid hormones
    receptor oligomerization
    post translational modification of receptors
    Experimental organism
    mouse
  26. 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
  27. Cristina Lo Celso

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    hematopoietic stem cell function
    intravital microscopy
    hematopoietic system
  28. Helen H Lu

    Columbia University, United States

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    bioengineering
    biomechanics
    orthopaedics
    tissue engineering
  29. Simón Méndez-Ferrer

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Expertise
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Developmental Biology
    Cancer Biology
    Medicine
    Research focus
    haematopoietic stem cell niche
    mesenchymal stem cells
    myeloproliferative neoplasms
    acute myeloid leukemia
    neuroimmunology
  30. 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
  31. Elke Ober

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Expertise
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    liver development
    regeneration
    Experimental organism
    zebrafish
  32. 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
  33. Tatjana Piotrowski

    Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    sensory organ development and regeneration
    morphogenesis
    transcriptional regulation of development and regeneration
    cell migration
    cell lineage
    developmental neurobiology
    Experimental organism
    zebrafish
  34. Lynne-Marie Postovit

    University of Alberta, Canada

    Expertise
    Cancer Biology
    Cell Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cellular plasticity
    tumour microenvironment
    hypoxia
    stem cells
    metastasis
    ovarian cancer
    breast cancer
  35. Milica Radisic

    University of Toronto, Canada

    Expertise
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    organ-on-a-chip
    organoid
    tissue engineering
    microfluidics
    biomaterials
    heart
    cardiomyocyte
    Experimental organism
    human
  36. Michaela Reagan

    Maine Medical Center Research Institute, United States

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Cancer Biology
    Cell Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    multiple myeloma
    bone marrow adipocyte
    fatty acid binding protein
    cancer-induced bone disease
    osteolysis
    Experimental organism
    mouse
  37. Jalees Rehman

    University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Genetics and Genomics
    Immunology and Inflammation
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    vascular biology
    macrophage biology
    inflammation
    transcriptomics
    single cell analysis
    lung biology
    cell regeneration
  38. Jeremy Reiter

    University of California, San Francisco, United States

    Expertise
    Cell Biology
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cilia
  39. 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
  40. Natalia Rubinstein

    University of Buenos Aires-CONICET, Argentina

    Expertise
    Cancer Biology
    Immunology and Inflammation
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    breast cancer tumor cell
    molecular biology
    drug resistance
    tumor immunology
  41. Fayez Safadi

    Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States

    Expertise
    Medicine
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    biomechanics
  42. Sonia Sen

    Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Neuroscience
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    neural stem cells
    neural circuits
    evo-devo
    Drosophila
    mosquito
    Experimental organism
    D. melanogaster
  43. Owen Tamplin

    University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

    Expertise
    Genetics and Genomics
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    hematopoeitic stem cells
    microenvironment
    zebrafish
    blood development
  44. Ivan Velasco

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Neuroscience
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    embryonic stem cells
    induced pluripotent stem cells
    neural stem cells
    CNS development
    Parkinson's disease
    animal models of neurological diseases
    cell grafting
    axonal guidance
    regeneration
  45. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

    Columbia University, United States

    Expertise
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    cardiac and bone regeneration
    tissue engineering
    in vitro models of development and disease
    biophysical regulation of stem cells
    Experimental organism
    human
  46. Jian Xu

    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

    Expertise
    Cancer Biology
    Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    Developmental Biology
    Genetics and Genomics
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    hematopoiesis
    erythropoiesis
    myeloid leukemia
    epigenetics
    transcription regulation
    enhancer
    metabolism
    Experimental organism
    human
    mouse
  47. 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 cell niche
    asymmetric cell division
    satellite DNA
    germline immortality
    ribosomal DNA
    Experimental organism
    D. melanogaster
  48. Karina Yaniv

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

    Expertise
    Developmental Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    angiogenesis
    lymphatic
    vascular
    organogenesis
    Experimental organism
    mouse
    zebrafish
  49. Norma Ybarra

    Research Institute McGill University Health Center, Canada

    Expertise
    Cancer Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    radiation biology
    radiotherapy
    cancer cell metabolism
    cancer therapies
  50. Gene W Yeo

    University of California, San Diego, United States

    Expertise
    Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    Cell Biology
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Genetics and Genomics
    Neuroscience
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    RNA biology
    computational biology
    CRISPR
    neurodegeneration
    single cell biology
    Experimental organism
    human
    mouse
  51. Yi Arial Zeng

    Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China

    Expertise
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Cell Biology
    Research focus
    tissue stem cells
    organoids
    wnt signaling
    mammary development
    hormone
    Experimental organism
    mouse
  52. Hao Zhu

    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

    Expertise
    Cancer Biology
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Medicine
    Research focus
    mechanisms of tissue repair and organ regeneration
    liver cancer
    hepatocellular carcinoma
    epigenetics
    polyploidy
    Experimental organism
    human
    mouse
  53. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker

    University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada

    Expertise
    Immunology and Inflammation
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
    Research focus
    developmental immunology
    thymus
    T cell development
    notch signaling
    lymphopoiesis
    preTCR signaling
    gamma/delta T cell differentiation
    Experimental organism
    human
    mouse