Sue Kimber BA, MD, PhD

Sue Kimber is currently Professor of Stem Cells and Development in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at The University of Manchester. Her first degree and PhD were obtained at the University of Cambridge where she became interested in specification of early cell fate decisions in the mammalian embryo and has worked in Cambridge, London, Copenhagen, and for the last two decades in Manchester. She is co-Director of the North West Embryonic Stem Cell Centre (NWESCC) which was established in 2006 and is jointly hosted by the University of Manchester (UoM) and Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT).

Sue has over 30 years experience as a developmental biologist working on early development of mammalian embryos.Sue is Co-Chair of the Mercia Stem Cell Alliance founded to promote research on pluripotent cells and their translation in the North West and Midlands. She is a member of the Stem Cells For Safer Medicine Advisory Board, the studentship grant committees of NC3Rs and a past member of grant committees of the research charity RCOG/Wellbeing and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) for stem cell research.