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Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall policy concerning the conduct, management and operation of the Program. The Board members are responsible to their governments and/or government funding agencies. The Board appoints the members of the Council of Scientists. One or two Board members are appointed by each of the member states and two by the European Union.

Australia

 

Prof. Anne KELSO
National Health and Medical Research Council
Canberra

 

Canada

 

Dr Alejandro ADEM
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Ottawa

 

Mr. Adrian MOTA
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Ottawa

European Commission

 

Ms. Signe RATSO
DG Research and Innovation
Brussels, Belgium

 

Dr. Henriette VAN EIJL
DG Research and Innovation
Brussels, Belgium

France

 

Dr. Jacques DEMOTES-MAINARD
(Vice President)
Ministry of Higher Education and Research
Paris

 

Germany

 

Dr. Ingrid OHLERT
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Bonn

 

Dr. Torsten GEISSLER
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Berlin

India

 

Prof. Rajesh GOKHALE
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
New Delhi 

 

Prof. Pushkar SHARMA
National Institute of Immunology
New Delhi

Israel

 

Dr. Iris EISENBERG
Ministry of Science and Technology
Jerusalem

 

Dr. Barak GATENYO 
Ministry of Science and Technology
Jerusalem

Italy

 

Prof. Glauco TOCCHINI-VALENTINI
Institute of Cell Biology
University of Rome

 

 

Japan

 

Prof. Shigekazu NAGATA (President)
Osaka University

 

Prof. Yoshinao MISHIMA
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
Tokyo

Republic of Korea

 

Mr. Seong Gyu KIM
Ministry of Science and ICT
Sejong-si

 

Dr. Hyong-Ha KIM
Korea Research Institute of Standards & Science
Daejeon

New Zealand

 

Prof. Vickery ARCUS (leave of absence)
University of Waikato

Prof. Troels PETERSEN (acting)
Roya Society Ap
ārangi

 

Norway

 

Dr. Kristin DANIELSEN
Research Council of Norway
Oslo

 

Singapore

 

Mr Kian Teik BEH 
National Research Foundation, Singapore

 

Prof. Teck Seng LOW
National University of Singapore

South Africa

 

 

Dr. Eugene LOTTERING
National Research Foundation
Pretoria

 

Prof Liesl ZUHLKE
South African Medical Research Council
Tygerberg

Switzerland

 

Dr. Thomas WERDER SCHLAEPFER
Swiss National Science Foundation

 

Dr. Simona BERARDI VILEI
Swiss National Science Foundation

United Kingdom

 

Dr. Mark PALMER (Treasurer)
UKRI-Medical Research Council
London

 

Prof. Melanie WELHAM
UKRI-Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Swindon

United States of America

 

Dr. Theresa GOOD (Vice President)
National Science Foundation
Alexandria

 

Dr. Tara SCHWETZ
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda

President

 

Shigekazu Nagata was appointed President of HFSPO and Chair of the Board of Trustees in July 2018.

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