Founders Advisory Board

The role of the Founders Advisory Board (FAB) is to provide guidance, contacts and environment scanning for CCRM’s activities, and act in an advisory capacity for CCRM’s operations.

• Mick Bhatia, McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, Hamilton
• James Ellis, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto
• Armand Keating, University Health Network, Toronto
• Gordon Keller, McEwen Stem Cell Institute and University Health Network, Toronto
• Andras Nagy, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
• Janet Rossant, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto
• Michael Rudnicki, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa
• Paul Santerre, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto
• Molly Shoichet, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto
• Bill Stanford, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa
• Peter Zandstra, CCRM and University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Strategic Advisory Board

The Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) was composed of world-leading experts in stem cell and biomaterials technologies. CCRM shared its SAB with the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Although the Strategic Advisory Board is no longer active, we would like to recognize the world-renowned experts who offered counsel to CCRM in its formative years.

Co- Chairs

• Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Canada
• Peter Zandstra, CCRM and University of British Columbia, Canada

Members

• Jeffrey Hubbell, The University of Chicago, USA
• Douglas Lauffenburger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Chris Mason, AVROBIO, USA
• Kathrin Plath, University of California, USA
• Michael Sefton, University of Toronto, Canada
• Toshio Suda, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Jakub Tolar, University of Minnesota, USA
• Fiona Watt, King’s College London, UK

Honourary Member

• Shinya Yamanaka, Centre for iPS Cell Research and Application, Japan