Governance

The Human Cell Atlas comprises members from many scientific institutions around the world. It is only by working together that we will be able to achieve the ambitious goals of this project.

The HCA is steered and governed by an Organizing Committee (OC), which is the decision-making body of the HCA. The OC is co-chaired by Aviv Regev and Sarah Teichmann.

The OC has an Executive Committee (EC) that is responsible for performing routine tasks between OC meetings, reviewing meeting agendas, and providing guidance to the HCA Executive Office.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (OC)

Ido Amit

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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Fabiana Arzuaga

University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Gary Bader

University of Toronto, Canada

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Christoph Bock

CeMM, Austria

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Piero Carninci

Fondazione Human Technopole, Italy & RIKEN, Japan

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Hans Clevers

Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands

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Roland Eils

Berlin Institute of Health – Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

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Nir Hacohen

Broad Institute, USA

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Muzlifah Haniffa

Wellcome Sanger Institute/Newcastle University, UK

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Mark Krasnow

Stanford University, USA

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Arnold Kriegstein

University of California, San Francisco, USA

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Ed Lein

Allen Institute, USA

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Sten Linnarsson

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

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Partha Majumder

John C. Martin Centre for Liver Research & Innovations and Liver Foundation, West Bengal, India

John Marioni

Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA; EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK; CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Miriam Merad

Mount Sinai, USA

Musa M Mhlanga

Radboud University, The Netherlands

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Shalin Naik

Walter + Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia

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Garry Nolan

Stanford University, USA

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Dana Pe'er

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, USA

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Shyam Prabhakar

Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

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Nikolaus Rajewsky

Helmholtz Association, Germany

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Aviv Regev

Genentech, USA

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Patricia Severino

Albert Einstein Research and Education Institute, Brazil

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Jay Shin

Genomic Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore and RIKEN, Japan

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Henk Stunnenberg

Radboud University, The Netherlands

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Sarah Teichmann

Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK

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Fabian Theis

Helmholtz-Munich, Germany

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Alexander van Oudenaarden

Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands

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Alexandra-Chloe Villani

Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, Harvard Medical School, USA and Broad Institute, USA

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Jonathan Weissman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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Christine Wells

University of Melbourne, Australia

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Barbara Wold

Caltech, USA

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Xiaowei Zhuang

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA and Harvard University, USA

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Alumni (OC)

Peter Campbell, (2017-2019)

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

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Eric Lander, (2017-2021)

Broad Institute, USA

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Chris Ponting, (2017-2019)

Edinburgh University, UK

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Steve Quake (2017-2022)

Stanford University / CZ Biohub, USA

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Ehud Shapiro, (2017-2019)

Weizmann Institute, Israel

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Michael Stratton, (2017-2022)

Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (EC)

Ayah Al-Rawni

UK office

Yoshi Ando

Asia office

Gary Bader

University of Toronto, Canada

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Piero Carninci

Fondazione Human Technopole, Italy & RIKEN, Japan

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Esther Chua

Singapore office

Muzlifah Haniffa

Wellcome Sanger Institute/Newcastle University, UK

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Bridget O'Donnell

USA office

Shyam Prabhakar

Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

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John Randell

USA office

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Aviv Regev

Genentech, USA

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Lucia Robson

UK office

Kristine Schwenck

USA office

Sarah Teichmann

Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK

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Ellen Todres

USA office

Alexandra-Chloe Villani

Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, Harvard Medical School, USA and Broad Institute, USA

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Samantha Wynne

UK office

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