Team

The Virtual Human Development Consortium was co-founded by Drs. Maria Abou Chakra, Nozomu Yachie, and Nika Shakiba, who act as the Founding Directors of the consortium. Under their leadership, the consortium now consists of over 40 world leading scientists and their teams, bridging experimentalists and theoreticians. The consortium strategically intersects experts and technologies from divergent disciplines to drive robust experiment-to-theory research cycles. The consortium leverages expertise in stem cells and developmental biology, stem cell bioengineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, machine learning, mathematical biology. We are also actively recruiting in the area of bioethics.

Advisory Board

Core Team Members

Trainees

Advisory Board

Advisory members are well-established and world-renowned senior researchers and leaders in their specific  field. They provide guidance around the scientific and logistical elements of the consortium.

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Core Team Members

The consortium is composed of core members, which are early and mid-career researchers (Principal Investigators and Research Associates) from around the world, spanning experts with research programs that take experimental and theoretical approaches to understanding stem cell and developmental biology.

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Trainees

Trainee council members are students or postdoctoral fellows from the labs of core members that are taking a leadership role in organizing trainee activities as part of the symposium, including collaborative technique exchange and seminars.

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