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.