Christine Mummery

Christine Mummery is Professor of Developmental Biology and heads the iPSC&OoC Hotel facility in the LUMC. She trained in Biophysics from the University of London and since 2015, has been guest professor at the University of Twente. Her research concerns modelling cardiovascular diseases using stem cells from patients and developing organ-on-chip models of multiple organs for safety pharmacology and potential disease and drug targets. She leads a multimillion NWO Gravity grant for this purpose and holds European Research Council Advanced and Proof-of-Concept grants. She co-founded the European Organ on Chip Society and the Netherlands Human Disease Modelling Technology organization (hDMT.technology). Most recently, she became part of the Novo Nordisk Foundation project reNEW on human stem cells which links nodes in the LUMC, Copenhagen and Melbourne to advance regenerative medicine and drug discovery.

She is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (KNAW) and past president of the International Society of Stem Cell research (ISSCR).  She was founding editor of the ISSCR journal Stem Cell Reports. She is on several scientific advisory boards including the Hubrecht Institute, Gurdon Institute, Allen Institute, Mogrify and Sartorius Gmbh