Christine Mummery
Christine Mummery studied Physics and has a PhD in Biophysics from the University of London. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Royal Society (UK) for research at the Hubrecht Institute where she became group leader and, in 2002, Professor of Developmental Biology. Her research concerned mouse development and differentiation of mouse and human embryonic stem cells, in particular the role of growth factor signalling in directed differentiation. She has pioneered studies characterizing cardiomyocytes from hES cells and was among the first to inject them in mouse heart and assess their effect on myocardial infarction.
In 2007, she spent sabbatical leave in Harvard University as a joint Harvard Stem Cell Institute/Radcliffe fellow and introduced human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells into the Netherlands soon thereafter.
In 2008 she moved with her group to Leiden University Medical Centre where she was appointed chair of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology. Here she continues research on heart development and the differentiation of hiPS and hES cells into the cardiac and vascular lineages. Immediate interest of her lab is on using stem cell derived cardiomyocytes and vascular cells as disease models, for drug discovery and future cardiac repair. She is a member of the board of the Netherlands Medical Research Council (ZonMW) and of several Scientific Advisory Boards, She has written a popular book on stem cells “Stem Cells: scientific facts and Fiction” (2011) intended as a semi-lay guide to stem cell biology and applications, is editor in chief/ editorial board member of Stem Cell Reports, Cell Stem Cells and Stem Cells and past president of the International Society of Differentiation (2010-2012).
In 2010 she was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science. In the same year she became a member of the board of the academy
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