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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

  • Sun, S, Wijanarko, K, Liani, O, Strumila, K, Ng, ES, Elefanty, AG, Stanley, EG. Lymphoid cell development from fetal hematopoietic progenitors and human pluripotent stem cells.. Immunol Rev 315(1) : 154 -170 2023
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  • Saxena, R, Elefanty, A, Labonne, T, Ng, E, Stanley, E. 3170 – TRACKING DEVELOPMENT OF RUNX1+ HEMOGENIC ENDOTHELIUM IN VITRO. Experimental Hematology 124: s134 2023
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  • Sun, S, See, M, Nim, HT, Strumila, K, Ng, ES, Hidalgo, A, Ramialison, M, Sutton, P, Elefanty, AG, Sarkar, S, et al. Human pluripotent stem cell-derived macrophages host Mycobacterium abscessus infection.. Stem Cell Reports 17(9) : 2156 -2166 2022
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  • Li, J, Lao, O, Bruveris, FF, Wang, L, Chaudry, K, Yang, Z, Farbehi, N, Ng, ES, Stanley, EG, Harvey, RP, et al. Mimicry of embryonic circulation enhances the hoxa hemogenic niche and human blood development.. Cell Rep 40(11) : 111339 2022
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  • Calvanese, V, Capellera-Garcia, S, Ma, F, Fares, I, Liebscher, S, Ng, ES, Ekstrand, S, Aguadé-Gorgorió, J, Vavilina, A, Lefaudeux, D, et al. Mapping human haematopoietic stem cells from haemogenic endothelium to birth.. Nature 604(7906) : 534 -540 2022
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