meeting representatives
undergraduate science correspondent
Parmin Sedigh
University of Toronto, Canada
Parmin is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, double-majoring in Cell & Molecular Biology and Global Health. Parmin was previously a Scientific Communications Intern at the New York Stem Cell Foundation and a Communications Assistant at U of T's Cell & Systems Biology Department. In 2021, she collaborated with the ISSCR during that year's virtual meeting and is excited to share the amazing science and opportunities at ISSCR 2026—this time in person!
ISSCR 2026 annual meeting ambassadors
ISSCR 2026 Ambassadors are responsible for posting about the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting on their personal social media accounts. They represent the meeting and help draw attention and excitement to The Global Stem Cell Event.
We appreciate all their work in spreading the word about the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting with their networks.
Meet the ISSCR 2026 Ambassadors below!
Kwesi Abaka-Quansah, University of Nottingham, UK
Halima Albalushi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Anita Banerjee, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati, India
Khongorzul Batchuluun, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Mongolia
Raghu Bhandary, Nepal Stem Cell Research Center, Nepal
Swarnabh Bhattacharya, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA
Lisa Bianchin, CHU Sainte-Justine, Canada
Romeo Blanc, UW-Madison, USA
Bianca de Freitas Brenha, Case Western Reserve University, USA Clarisse Brunet Avalos, Institut Curie, France
Evan-Angelo Butlig, University of South Florida, USA
Karen Cabiloque, Centuria Medical Makati, Philippines
Jimmy Cai, Mayo Clinic Graduate School, USA
Rodrigo Cristofoletti, University of Florida, USA
Anine Crous, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Marlon Dias, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Min Ding, Kumamoto University, IRCMS, Japan
Max Friesen, Whitehead Institute, USA
Camille Fulmore, UC Berkeley, USA
Matteo Gallazzi, Swiss Stem Cell Foundation, Switzerland
Subhajit Giri, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Marion Guillon, Azrieli Research Center, CHU Sainte-Justine, Canada
Kadriye Güven, Institute of Liver Studies, King's College London, UK
Sharmin Haideri, Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Clinic, UAE
Nicholas Hannan, University of Nottingham, UK
Heidar Heidari Khoei, IMBA, Austria
Reyhaneh Hossein Pour, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Cheng-Han Hsieh, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Jeonghye Hannah Hwang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Ilá Jasra, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, USA
Kaustubh Joshi, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Nidhi Kamboj, PGIMER, India
Shahzina Kanwal, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, China, China
Kevin Law, University of Sydney, Australia
Florencia Levin, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Soah Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Yuxin Luo, Peking University Third Hospital, China
Davi Lyra-Leite, BMEM Bio/Clever Carnivore, USA
Miyeko Mana, Arizona State University, USA
Carmen Maldonado, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
Carolina Mejia Peña, Harvard University, USA
Meghna Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India
Rene Mih Tah, University of Bamenda, Cameroon
Eslam Mohammed, KU Leuven, Belgium
Mohit Mohit, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tanzila Mukhtar, University of California San Francisco, USA
Gunel Mukhtarova, Ege University, Turkey
Sarah Naguib, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Ahlem Nour El Yakine Bounechada, Near East University, Turkey
Gehad Oura, Egypt Center for Research and Regenerative Medicine, Egypt
Seonghyeon Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
Janny Pineiro, University of Florida USA
Anna Pulawska-Czub, University of Warsaw, Poland
Rida-e-Maria Qazi, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Shafiqa Naeem Rajput, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Anna Reinelt, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany
Ferdinand Reke Avikpe, University of Toronto, Canada
Christian Roig, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Sounak Sahu, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Sreelakshmi Sadanandan, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
Luíza Santa Brígida de Barros Góes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Ekaterina Semenova, Columbia University, USA
RishiRaj Sinha, AIIMS New Delhi, India
Siebe Spijker, LUMC, Netherlands
Verena Schwach, University of Twente, Netherlands
Li Tao, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA
Yiling Tsang, Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University of Muenster, Germany
Eman Thabet, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Thangam T., Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, India
Szu Ting--Cindy Tung, Weill Cornell Medicine / Cornell University, USA
Kagistia Hana Utami, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Darsh Vaghani, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Eva van Zanten, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
Hong Wa Lao, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jun Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada
Luozixian Wang, University of Melbourne, Australia
Yueqi Wang, Zhejiang University, China
Dosh Whye, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
Atilgan Yilmaz, KU Leuven, Belgium
Muhammad Yameen Hamid, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lynn Yap, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Anna Yu, HKU, Hong Kong, China
Setareh Zahedi, University of Algarve, Portugal
Xinyue Zhang, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China