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Christine Mummery, Ph.D.
Christine Mummery studied Physics and has a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of London. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Royal Society (UK) for research at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands where she became group leader and in 2002, Professor of Developmental Biology. Her research concerned the functions of TGFß signalling in mouse development and differentiating stem cells. In 2008 she was appointed chair of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Centre. Here she will continue research in both developmental biology of the heart and the differentiation of pluripotent human embryonic stem cells and iPS cells into the cardiac and vascular lineages. Functional characterization of the stem cell derivatives is presently the major focus of her lab, immediate interest being on the use of human pluripotent stem cells as disease models, for drug discovery and in future cardiac repair. In 2007, she spent sabbatical leave as a joint Harvard Stem Cell Institute/Radcliffe fellow.

Christine Mummery serves on the Ethical Councils of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science and the Ministry of Health, providing specialized advice on research with human embryos and embryonic stem cells. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Stem Cell Centre, Leuven, in Belgium, ESTOOLs (an EU stem cell programme) and the UK-based Stem Cells for Safer Medicine (SC4SM).

Updated: April 16, 2009