Editors for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

We aim to publish conceptually important 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 important new biological insights. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

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
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.

Reviewing editors

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
Anita Bhattacharyya

University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodevelopmental disorders
brain development
pluripotent stem cell

Experimental organism
human
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
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
Andrew Brack

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
muscle stem cells
regeneration
Margaret Buckingham

Institut Pasteur, France

Expertise
Cell Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cardiogenesis
muscle stem cells

Experimental organism
mouse
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
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
Stephanie Fraley

University of California San Diego, United States

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
cell-ECM interactions
biomaterials
cell migration
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
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
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
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
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
Atsushi Iwama

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
stem cells
hematopoietic stem cells
epigenetics
aging

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Carole LaBonne

Northwestern University, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
neural crest
stem cells

Experimental organism
Xenopus
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
Ravindra Majeti

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
hematopoietic stem cell function
leukemia

Experimental organism
human
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
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
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
Lynne-Marie Postovit

University of Alberta, Canada

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cancer
stem cells
epigenetics
phenotypic plasticity

Experimental organism
human
Jeremy Reiter

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cilia
Elizabeth Robertson

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
transcriptional regulators
mammalian development

Experimental organism
mouse
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
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
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
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
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
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
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