Rate My Professor Andrew Elefanty

Professor Andrew Elefanty is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He serves as Group Leader of the Blood Development Laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where his work centers on the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to model blood diseases and support potential transplantation applications. Elefanty trained as a physician in medical oncology and earned a PhD in leukaemogenesis from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research under the supervision of Professor Suzanne Cory. He later conducted research on globin gene regulation with Professor Frank Grosveld at the National Institute for Medical Research in London and returned to the Hall Institute to study developmental haematopoiesis and mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation.

In 2002, Elefanty relocated to Monash University to begin studies with human embryonic stem cells, and his laboratory moved to the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in 2013. In collaboration with Professor Ed Stanley and Dr Elizabeth Ng, he has contributed to the generation of genetically modified human stem cell lines featuring lineage-specific fluorescent reporters for monitoring differentiation. His research group focuses on haematopoietic differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells. Elefanty maintains active collaborations with researchers at institutions including the University of Birmingham and the University of California. He holds qualifications of MB BS, PhD, and FRACP.