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Cellosaurus - Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Cellosaurus is composed of external experts widely recognized for their contribution in the fields of activity of the Cellosaurus. The SAB acts as a consultative body, its principal responsibilities being to advise on scientific objectives and priorities, to evaluate the outcomes and to propose means of improving outcomes and visibility.

Cellosaurus SAB members

The current members of the Cellosaurus SAB are:

Jamie ALMEIDA
Research Biologist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, USA.
Organized and led the Mouse Cell Line Authentication Consortium. Chairperson of ICLAC. Organizing the production and characterization of the next adenovirus reference material.
ORCID:0000-0001-5616-4029
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Anita BANDROWSKI
Department of Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego; USA.
Co-Founder and CEO of SciCrunch. Founder of the Resource Identification Initiative.
ORCID:0000-0002-5497-0243
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Niels C. BOLS
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo; Canada.
Best known for his remarkable generation and maintenance of fish cell lines for detailed experimental work.
ORCID:0000-0002-9762-4033
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Amanda CAPES-DAVIS
Scientist and technical writer
Founding Manager of CellBank Australia. Chairperson of ICLAC from 2012 to 2021. Coauthor of the 8th edition of the cell culture textbook Culture of Animal Cells.
ORCID:0000-0003-4184-6339
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Christine DURINX
Managing Director of VIB Flanders Institute for Biotechnology; Belgium.
Formerly Joint Executive director of the SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. PhD in pharmaceutical sciences.
ORCID:000-0003-4237-8899
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David GURWITZ
Director of the National Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Populations (NLGIP) and professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; Israel.
At the NLGIP responsible for the establishment of 2000 LCL cell lines. Research to find genomic biomarkers for the response to CNS drugs.
ORCID:0000-0002-9363-1869
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Tadashi KONDO
Chief of the Division of Rare Cancer Research at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo; Japan.
Established patient-derived cancer cell lines and PDXs from approximately 100 patients with sarcomas, and conducted drug screening with proteogenomics.
ORCID:0000-0001-6405-7792
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Jan VAN DER VALK
Former project manager of 3Rs Center at Utrecht University; The Netherlands.
Established the Fetal Calf Serum-Free Database as well as other resources supporting the 3Rs initiative.
Google Scholar: aLNs9OQAAAAJ
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