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Executive Director and Officers 2022-2023

Greg Fahy

PRESIDENT
Dr. Gregory M. Fahy
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer 
21st Century Medicine
14960 Hilton Dr
Fontana, CA 92336
United States

Adam HigginsPAST PRESIDENT
Dr. Adam Z. Higgins
Associate Professor
Oregon State University
Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Corvallis, OR 97331-2702 
United States
Allison Hubel

PRESIDENT-ELECT
Prof. Allison Hubel
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of BioCoR
Mechanical Engineering 
The University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

James Benson

SECRETARY
Dr. James D. Benson
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2 
Canada

Janet A.W. Elliott

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dr. Janet A.W. Elliott
Editor-in-Chief, Cryobiology
University of Alberta Distinguished Professor & Canada Research Chair in Thermodynamics
Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, T6G 2H5
Canada

Steven MullenTREASURER
Dr. Steven F. Mullen
Senior Scientist, Team Lead-Cell Culture Media Development
Cook Medical 

500 W Simpson Chapel Road
Bloomington, IN 47404 
United States

 

 

Governors 2021 - 2023

John M. Baust

Dr. John M. Baust
Founder, President, and CEO
CPSI Biotech
2 Court Street
Owego, NY 13827
United States

Shannon Tessier

Dr. Shannon N. Tessier 
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital 
Boston, MA
United States 

Christina Walters

Dr. Christina N. Walters 
Lead Scientist 
National Laboratory for Genetic Resource Preservation
USDA - Agricultural Research Service
Fort Collins, CO
United States 

Governors 2022 - 2024

Kelvin Brockbank

Dr. Kelvin Brockbank
CEO, Tissue Testing Technologies LLC
Technical Parkway
North Charleston, SC 29406

United States

Estefania Paredes

Dr. Estefania Paredes
Universidade de Vigo
Marine Biological Resource Functional Preservation Service
Estación Cientifica Mariña de Toralla (ECIMAT)
Vigo, 36911, Galicia
Spain

Boris Rubinsky

Dr. Boris Rubinsky
Professor of the Graduate School
Mechanical Engineering 
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
United States 

 Governors 2023 - 2025

Daniel Ballesteros

Dr. Daniel Ballesteros
Lecturer
Department of Botany and Geology
University of Valencia 
Spain

Peter Kilbride

Dr. Peter Kilbride 
Senior Research Scientist
Cell & Gene Therapy
Cytiva
United Kingdom

 

Rebecca Sandlin

Dr. Rebecca Sandlin 
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital 
Boston, MA
United States