External Advisory Board

Sally Camper - University of Michigan
Pituitary, hair cells and skeletal development

Ira Fox - University of Pittsburgh
Transplant surgery (liver and pancreas), stem cell therapies for liver diseases

Ron Kahn - Joslin Diabetes Center
Type-2 Diabetes

Ihor Lemischka - Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Fetal liver and adult bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells

Danny Pipeleers - Brussels Free University
Biology and pathology of pancreatic beta cells, islet transplantation

John Quackenbush - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Computational biology and bioinformatics

Geoff Rosenfeld - University of California, San Diego
Sensors and signals, transcriptional co-activator and co-repressor complexes, neural stem cells

Massimo Trucco - University of Pittsburgh
Etiology of T1D (autoimmunity), beta-cell apoptosis, derivation of islets from pigs, exploitation of adult stem cells for endocrine pancreas regeneration

Harald Von Boehmer - Harvard Medical School
T-Cell development

Irving Weissman - Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Biology and evolution of stem cells and progenitor cells, mainly blood-forming and brain-forming