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Role Group Leader / Snr Princ Research Fellow
Research area Stem Cell Medicine

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Professor Andrew Elefanty is the Group Leader of the Blood Diseases Laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). Prof Elefanty's research focuses on the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to understand and model blood diseases in vitro and for transplantation. Together with the laboratories of Professor Ed Stanley (Immune Development group) and Dr Elizabeth Ng (Blood Development group) at MCRI, Prof Elefanty has made important contributions to the generation of genetically modified human stem cell lines in which lineage-specific fluorescent reporters allow monitoring of differentiation.

After training as a physician, Professor Elefanty completed a PhD in leukaemogenesis at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research supervised by Professor Suzanne Cory. He subsequently worked on globin gene regulation with Professor Frank Grosveld at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London before returning to the Hall Institute to pursue interests in developmental haematopoiesis and the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells.

He moved to Monash University in 2002 to initiate studies with human embryonic stem cells. In 2013, his laboratory relocated to the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. In collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Ng and Prof Ed Stanley, he has focused on haematopoietic differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells.

Professor Elefanty holds active collaborations with:
• Professor Ed Stanley, Immune Development Laboratory, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
• Dr Elizabeth Ng, Blood Development Laboratory, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
• Professor Constanze Bonifer, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham
• Professor Hanna Mikkola, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology University of California
Professor Andrew Elefanty is the Group Leader of the Blood Diseases Laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). Prof Elefanty's research focuses on the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to understand and model...
Professor Andrew Elefanty is the Group Leader of the Blood Diseases Laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). Prof Elefanty's research focuses on the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to understand and model blood diseases in vitro and for transplantation. Together with the laboratories of Professor Ed Stanley (Immune Development group) and Dr Elizabeth Ng (Blood Development group) at MCRI, Prof Elefanty has made important contributions to the generation of genetically modified human stem cell lines in which lineage-specific fluorescent reporters allow monitoring of differentiation.

After training as a physician, Professor Elefanty completed a PhD in leukaemogenesis at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research supervised by Professor Suzanne Cory. He subsequently worked on globin gene regulation with Professor Frank Grosveld at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London before returning to the Hall Institute to pursue interests in developmental haematopoiesis and the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells.

He moved to Monash University in 2002 to initiate studies with human embryonic stem cells. In 2013, his laboratory relocated to the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. In collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Ng and Prof Ed Stanley, he has focused on haematopoietic differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells.

Professor Elefanty holds active collaborations with:
• Professor Ed Stanley, Immune Development Laboratory, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
• Dr Elizabeth Ng, Blood Development Laboratory, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
• Professor Constanze Bonifer, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham
• Professor Hanna Mikkola, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology University of California

Top Publications

  • Arasaratnam, D, Bell, KM, Sim, CB, Koutsis, K, Anderson, DJ, Qian, EL, Stanley, EG, Elefanty, AG, Cheung, MM, Oshlack, A, et al. The role of cardiac transcription factor NKX2-5 in regulating the human cardiac miRNAome.. Sci Rep 9(1) : 15928 2019
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  • Dong, L, Reljic, B, Cheung, JG, Ng, ES, Lindqvist, LM, Elefanty, AG, Vaux, DL, Tran, H. In the absence of apoptosis, myeloid cells arrest when deprived of growth factor, but remain viable by consuming extracellular glucose.. Cell Death Differ 26(10) : 2074 -2085 2019
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  • Howden, S, Hosseini Far, H, Motazedian, A, Elefanty, AG, Stanley, EG, Lamandé, SR, Bateman, JF. The use of simultaneous reprogramming and gene correction to generate an osteogenesis imperfecta patient COL1A1 c. 3936 G>T iPSC line and an isogenic control iPSC line.. Stem Cell Res 38: 101453 2019
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  • Hosseini Far, H, Patria, YN, Motazedian, A, Elefanty, AG, Stanley, EG, Lamandé, SR, Bateman, JF. Generation of a heterozygous COL1A1 (c.3969_3970insT) osteogenesis imperfecta mutation human iPSC line, MCRIi001-A-1, using CRISPR/Cas9 editing.. Stem Cell Res 37: 101449 2019
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  • Tian, P, Abberton, K, Elefanty, A, Stanley, E, Hollands, J, Thompson, L, Elwood, N. PRODUCTION OF iPSCs FROM A SMALL VOLUME OF CRYOPRESERVED HUMAN UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BUFFY COAT UNDER “GMP-COMPLIANT” CONDITIONS. Cytotherapy 21(5) : s13 -s14 2019
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