We remember our dear friends and colleagues, Amos Bairoch and Edward Burnett, who passed away in 2025. Their many contributions to ICLAC are part of their legacy to biomedical research.
Tribute to Amos Bairoch from the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
We also remember and value the contributions from our dear friends and colleagues, Roland Nardone and R. Ian Freshney, who passed away in 2018 and 2019.
ICLAC’s tribute to Ian Freshney and his achievements
ICLAC’s tribute to Roland Nardone and his achievements
 | Jamie Almeida (Chair) National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA |
 | Amanda Capes-Davis CellBank Australia – Children’s Medical Research Institute, Westmead NSW, Australia |
 | José Antonio Carrillo Ávila Andalusian Public Health System Biobank, Granada, Spain |
 | Jim R. Cooper UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Culture Collections, Porton Down, UK |
 | Deilson Elgui de Oliveira São Paulo State University (UNESP) – Medical School (Department of Pathology) and Institute for Biotechnology (IBTEC), Botucatu, SP, Brazil |
 | Erin Hall Labcorp Cell Line Authentication Services, Burlington, NC USA |
 | Lyn Healy The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK |
 | Christopher Korch Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora CO, USA |
 | Yuqin Liu School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P. R. China |
 | Raymond W. Nims RMC Pharmaceutical Solutions, Longmont CO, USA |
 | Rebecca Schweppe Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora CO, USA |
 | Chao Shen China Center for Type Culture Collection, Wuhan, P. R. China |
 | Fang Tian American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas VA, USA |
 | Ralf Weiskirchen RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany |
Associate Members
| Arihiro Kohara Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB), National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Osaka, Japan |
| Roderick A.F. MacLeod Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany |
| John R.W. Masters The Prostate Cancer Research Centre, University College London, London, UK |
| Douglas R. Storts Promega Corporation, Madison WI, USA |
Past Members
| Christine Alston-Roberts American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas VA, USA |
| Amos Bairoch SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Tanya Barrett (Observer) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda MD, USA |
| Edward C. Burnett UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Culture Collections, Porton Down, UK |
| Wilhelm G. Dirks Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany |
| R. Ian Freshney Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK |
| Jim Fuller Lighthouse Lab Services, Charlotte NC, USA |
| Liz Kerrigan American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas VA, USA |
| Douglas A. Kniss The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA |
| Andreas Kurtz Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Registry (hPSCreg) |
| Yukio Nakamura RIKEN BioResource Center, Cell Engineering Division, Tsukuba, Japan |
| Roland M. Nardone Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA |
| Richard M. Neve Frontier Medicines, South San Francisco CA, USA |
| Barbara Parodi IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy |
| Yvonne A. Reid American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas VA, USA |