INSTITUTE OF HUMAN BIOLOGY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Employee Training and Development Driver
Andrea is the Employee Training and Development Driver. She is responsible for designing training and development plans, defining the onboarding process, and supporting individual career development. Andrea joins the IHB from the Roche People & Culture organisation. Prior to moving to Basel, Andrea worked in California tech start-ups in various HR roles. Andrea holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from San Jose State University in California and a Master's in International Human Resource Management from the University of Essex.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Co - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the Center for Stem Cell
James Wells is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine, an endowed professor at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation in the Division of Developmental Biology, and the Director for Basic Research in the Division of Endocrinology. His research focuses on the processes by which gastrointestinal and endocrine organs form in the developing embryo and how they maintain systemic metabolic homeostasis.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Jennifer A. Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Her research focuses on 3D printing of soft and living matter across multiple scales.
She has made pioneering contributions to the programmable assembly of soft functional, structural, and biological materials. These novel architected materials may find potential application in printed electronics, optical and structural metamaterials, soft robotics, and 3D vascularised tissues and organs. Her work on microscale 3D printing was highlighted as one of the "10 Breakthrough Technologies" by the MIT Technology Review, while her bioprinting research was named "one of the top 100 science stories" by Discover Magazine.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Director of the Center of Stem Cell Biology
Lorenz Studer is a developmental neurobiologist and the Director of the Center of Stem Cell Biology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. He is also a Professor of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. His research focuses on using stem cells to develop new therapies for degenerative diseases and cancer.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Principal Investigator at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Madeline Lancaster is a developmental neurobiologist and principal investigator at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. Her lab uses cerebral organoids to model and understand the development and diseases of the human brain.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Lab Manager / Principal Research Associate
As a lab manager, Régine oversees the team's working spaces, ensuring that they operate in a safe, compliant and efficient manner. Régine's research interests are largely related to deriving diverse cell types from primary human samples, and using them as the building blocks for complex in vitro models. She has extensive experience as a research associate in the academic and industrial setting, including broad expertise in organoid and organ-on-a-chip technology and immunocompetent models.
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Associate
Yanyan is a Senior Research Associate. She completed her Master study in Biochemistry in Singapore. Since then, she has been working in research institutes in Singapore and Switzerland in the fields of molecular, cellular and organoid biology. She has spent 5 years working on retinal organoids. At IHB, she diversifies her experience with organoid models and is working on gastruloid and tumoroid models.