Christine Mummery, Ph.D., is a full professor of Developmental Biology and heads pluripotent stem cell research at Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. She served as president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) for the year 2020-2021.

She pioneered studies on cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells. She collaborates with engineers at the Technical University of Twente to develop heart-on-a-chip models, “artificial” human mini-hearts on microfluidic chips made from reprogrammed stem cells to study cardiac pathophysiology and test new drugs for cardiovascular diseases, as well as therapies targeted to individual patients.

She co-founded the European Organ on Chip Society and the Netherlands Human Disease Modelling Technology organization (hDMT.technology). She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (KNAW).