Elly Tanaka is Scientific Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She studied at Harvard, earned her PhD at UCSF, and completed postdoctoral research at University College London. A member of the US National Academy of Sciences and several European academies, she is President of the International Society for Developmental Biology. Her award-winning research focuses on tissue regeneration, stem cells, and organoid models.