Scientific Advisors

Susan J. Fisher, Ph.D.

Dr. Fisher is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. She is jointly appointed in the Department of Anatomy. Dr. Fisher is the Director of the UCSF Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program and Faculty Director of the Sandler-Moore Mass Spectrometry Facility, which is a campus-wide technology core. She is a member of the Eli & Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine & Stem Cell Research at UCSF and the Center for Reproductive Sciences. Ongoing research projects in her lab include exploring the basic mechanisms involved in human placental development, devising new methods for propagating and deriving human embryonic stem cell lines and applying mass spectrometry-based approaches to compile protein catalogues with a particular focus on biomarker discovery. She has served on several NIH panels. Most recently, she chaired the Reproductive Biology Study Section and was the principal co-organizer of the first Keystone Conference on Reproduction. Honors received include the Sadler Award (NIH), 2000; an NIH MERIT Award, 2000; the UCSF Graduate Association Outstanding Mentor Award, 2002; the Anita Payne Lectureship (University of Michigan), 2003; the UCSF School of Dentistry Faculty Research Award, 2004; and the Silbar Memorial Lectureship, 2007 (Northwestern University).