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ISCI Director's Advisory Committee

Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute

The ISCI Director’s Advisory Committee (DAC) ensures that the vision of the SAC and GAB is executed across platform activities. 

Comprised of faculty members, the DAC identifies collaborations and effective partnerships as important means for quality enhancement, adding value and continuous improvement to ISCI Platforms. In addition, the DAC identifies novel therapies that have commercial potential for possible spin-off companies and makes recommendations regarding research on emerging therapies using stem cells. DAC members include:

Arora, Himanshu 
Assistant Professor
Urology

Badiavas, Evangelos 
Professor of Medicine
Dermatology

Balkan, Wayne 
Research Associate Professor
Medicine

Correa, Zelia
Professor of Medicine
Ophthalmology

Dong, Chunming 
Professor of Medicine
Cardiology

Hare, Joshua
Louis Lemberg Professor of Medicine
Cardiology

Isasi, Rosario
Research Associate Professor
Human Genetics

Jayaweera, Dushyantha
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Infectious Diseases

Khan, Aisha 
Executive Director, GMP Lab
Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute

Kurtenbach, Stefan 
Research Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology

Ramasamy, Ranjith  
Associate Professor of Medicine
Urology

Sabater, Alfonso 
Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology

Shehadeh, Lina 
Associate Professor
Cardiology

Yavagal, Dileep 
Professor of Medicine
Neurology

Young, Karen
Associate Professor
Pediatrics