Stem Cell COREdinates is an international consortium of human pluripotent stem cell core facilities.

It was founded in 2009 by Sunita DSouza (then Director of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Core at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York) and Mark Tomishima (then Director of the Stem Cell Core at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).

In August 2025, Stem Cell COREdinates was incorporated as Stem Cell COREdinates, Inc., a non-stock, non-profit corporation under Chapter 181 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

Board of Directors

Christopher Navara, Ph.D.

President
University of Texas at San Antonio

Samuele Marro, Ph.D.

Vice President
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sunita DSouza, Ph.D.

Treasurer
The Jackson Laboratory

Justin McDonough, Ph.D.

Secretary
The Jackson Laboratory

Deborah French, Ph.D.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Laurence Daheron, Ph.D.

Harvard University

Barbara Corneo, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Tenneille E. Ludwig, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wenli Yang, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Laura Batlle Morera, Ph.D.

Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG)

Laurent David, Ph.D.

Nantes Université

Communications Director & Webmaster

Richard Gronostajski, Ph.D.

University at Buffalo

Past Presidents

Sunita DSouza, Ph.D.

2010-2011

Mark Tomishima, Ph.D.

2012-2017

Laurence Daheron, Ph.D.

2017-2019

Deborah French, Ph.D.

2019-2021

Wenli Yang, Ph.D.

2021-2023

Tenneille Ludwig, Ph.D.

2023-2024

Barbara Corneo, Ph.D.

2024-2026