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CSSI Presidents

Lea Sistonen
2023-2024
President
Åbo Akademi University
Finland

Mehdi Mollapour
2025-2026
President Elect
Upstate Medical University
USA

Valerie Mezger
2021-2022
Immediate Past President
Université Paris Diderot
France


Past Presidents

1999 – Lawrence Hightower (USA), Founding President

2000 – Takashi Yura (Japan)

2001 – Richard Morimoto (USA)

2002 – Robert M. Tanguay (Canada)

2003 – Olivier Bensaude (France)

2004 – Kazuhiro Nagata (Japan)

2005 – Stuart Calderwood (US

2006 – Peter Csermely (Hungary)

2007 – Gabriele Multhoff (Germany)

2008 – Noriyuki Sato (Japan)

2009-2010 – Antonio De Maio (USA)

2011-2012 – Robert M. Tanguay (Canada)

2013-2014 – A. Graham Pockley (UK)

2015-2016 – Tangchun Wu (PR China)

2017-2018 – M. Gabriella Santoro (Italy)

2019-2020 – Leonard Neckers (USA)

2021-2022 – Valérie Lallemand-Mezger (France)

2023 -2024 – Lea Sistonen (Finland)

All other Presidents were also President-elect and Immediate Past President, except for Lawrence Hightower who was not President-elect.

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