Practical applications in modern molecular and systems biology, such as the search for new therapeutic targets for diseases and stem cell reprogramming, have generated a great interest in the cell fate reprogramming, i.e., controlling the internal state of a cell so that it is driven from an initial state to a final target state. Although the topic of controlling the dynamics of a system, of which cell fate reprogramming can be considered a subset, has a long history in control and systems theory, most of this work is not directly applicable to intracellular networks.