Stem Cells Australia is a collaboration between Australia’s leading research universities and research organisations in stem cell science: The University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Queensland and the University of NSW, CSIRO, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, the Victor Chang Research Institute and the Florey Neuroscience Institutes. The University of Melbourne is the Administering Organisation for the initiative and host to the Program Leader Professor Martin Pera and the core operations team.
Institutional oversight of the Stem Cells Australia initiative will be provided by the
Governance Committee, composed of one nominee from each of the eight partners, Professor Martin Pera and will be chaired by
Professor David de Kretser. The partner nominees include
Professor Mark Hargreaves,
Professor Ross Coppel,
Professor Max Lu,
Associate Professor Laurent Rivory,
Dr Britt Granath,
Dr Julian Clark,
Dr Henry de Azipurua and
Dr Keith McLean.
The
Scientific Advisory Committee will provide strategic advice to the Program Leader on the research directions of initiative and independent evaluation on the research performance. Consisting of national and international experts in the field of stem cell science the Scientific Advisory Committee is chaired by
Professor Patrick Tam, Children’s Medical Research Institute (Sydney), and includes Professors
Christine Mummery, Leiden University Medical Centre (The Netherlands),
Michael Rudnicki, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (Canada),
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Japan) and
Peter Zandstra, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Torronto (Canada).