Advisory Board
This project greatly leverages knowledge from luminaries in several fields who have paved the way in microchimerism research.
Diana W. Bianchi
Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
Research topics: fetal cell microchimerism and prenatal testing.
William J. Burlingham
Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center /University of Wisconsin
Research topics: natural and acquired immune tolerance, stem cell interest for the creation of in vivo models of the human adaptive immune system.
Hyun-Dong Chang
Group leader Microbiota and Inflammation at German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin
Research topics: influence of intestinal microbiota on chronic inflammation, cytometric fingerprinting of disease-associated microbiota.
Matthias Gunzer
Head of the Biospectroscopy Department at ISAS
Research topics: immune cell behaviour, motility, migratory pattern and formation of cell-cell interaction.
David A. Haig
Professor in Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Research topics: intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent-offspring conflict.
Kiarash Khosrotehrani
Group leader Experimental Dermatology at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute
Research topics: regenerative medicine and stem cell biology, cancer initiation and progression.
Nathalie Lambert
Director of French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
Research topics: rheumatoid arthritis, immune and HLA system.
Dennis Lo
Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences & Professor of Chemical Pathology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Research topics: Clinical genetics, prenatal diagnosis, molecular pathology, cancer detection and diagnosis.
J. Lee Nelson
Professor in Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Professor of Medicine at University of Washington
Research topics: microchimerism and chimerism, autoimmune diseases, cancer, infectious disease, pregnancy complications.
Jelmer Prins
University Medical Center Groningen
Research topics: reproductive sciences, genetics, adult health and disease.
Anne Cathrine Staff
Professor at University of Oslo & Head of Research at the Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Oslo University Hospital
Research topics: pregnancy biomarkers, pregnancy complications, placental dysfunction, gynaecological malignancies, urogynaecology.
Anders Ståhlberg
Principal investigator in Sahlgrenska Cancer Center at University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Research topics: identifying FET sarcoma-specific drug targets, development and implementation of liquid biopsy-based diagnostics in health care.
Ina Annelies Stelzer
Professor in Pregnancy (Neuro)Immunology Lab at University of California
Research topics: maternal brain axis, maternal blood immune markers and metabolites.
