Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD, is the Director of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative (CSCI) and Alumni Professor of Genetics & Development at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) in New York City. In 2020, she was President of the International Society of Experimental Hematology (ISEH).

She is internationally recognized for her work on the biology and aging of blood-forming hematopoietic stem cells that produce all of our blood and immune cells. Failure of stem cell functions as they get older is a big risk for developing anemia, immune disorders, and blood cancers. By investigating how hematopoietic stem cells regulate blood production throughout life, Emmanuelle Passegué and her team aim to help develop new therapies to treat blood cancers and other diseases related to aging.