National Committee for Cellular and Developmental Biology

The National Committee for Cellular and Developmental Biology (NCCDB) fosters the disciplines of cellular and developmental biology in Australia and serves as a link between Australian and overseas scientists. The NCCDB provides advice to the Academy on issues pertaining to cellular and developmental biology.

Governance

• Terms of reference (PDF, 198 KB)

Reports and activities

• Joint submission – Gene technology regulation, December 2016.
• Submission—TGA Consultation on Regulation of Cell and Tissue Products, October 2016
• Submission to the National Research Infrastructure Capability Consultation, September 2016
• Submission to the NHMRC Structural Review, August 2016

Members

• Chair: Professor Natasha Harvey
  • Centre for Cancer Biology, ARC Future Fellow and Head of the Lymphatic Development Laboratory
  • Research expertise: Molecular pathology
• Committee member: Associate Professor Dominic Ng
  • The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences
  • Research expertise: Cell signalling, molecular cardiology, neural development
• Committee member: Professor Megan Munsie
• University of Melbourne, Professor of Emerging Technologies (Stem), Royal Melbourne Hospital
• Research expertise: Developmental biology, stem cell ethics and policy, stem cell research
• Committee member: Professor Richard Harvey
• Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Head of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division
• Research expertise: Heart development, congenital heart disease
• Committee member: Professor Ryan Lister FAA
• The University of Western Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology
• Research expertise: Understanding the human genome, epigenetics, the human epigenome