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Role Team Leader / Dir. Cord Blood Bank
Research area Stem Cell Medicine

Contact

Available for student supervision
Associate Professor Ngaire Elwood is the Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank and Head of the Cord Blood Stem Cell Research Laboratory at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Her current research interest is aimed at extending the use of cord blood for cellular therapies, particularly through clinical grade cord blood derived iPSCs and cord blood for cardiac repair..

Ngaire serves as Chair of the AusCord network of public cord blood banks. She is Vice President of the international Board of Directors for the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapies (FACT), is a FACT inspector and serves on various FACT committees. Other board and executive appointments include Non-Executive Director on the Board of the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia, Chair of the Australian Sickle Cell Advocacy Inc, and a member of the Board of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT). Ngaire serves on the TGA Advisory Committee on Biologicals and the MCRI Institutional Biosafety Committee.

Ngaire has devoted her career to providing improved therapies for the treatment of cancer, leukaemia and other disorders, and is passionate about the therapeutic application of cellular therapies.
Associate Professor Ngaire Elwood is the Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank and Head of the Cord Blood Stem Cell Research Laboratory at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Her current research interest is aimed at extending the use of cord...
Associate Professor Ngaire Elwood is the Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank and Head of the Cord Blood Stem Cell Research Laboratory at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Her current research interest is aimed at extending the use of cord blood for cellular therapies, particularly through clinical grade cord blood derived iPSCs and cord blood for cardiac repair..

Ngaire serves as Chair of the AusCord network of public cord blood banks. She is Vice President of the international Board of Directors for the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapies (FACT), is a FACT inspector and serves on various FACT committees. Other board and executive appointments include Non-Executive Director on the Board of the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia, Chair of the Australian Sickle Cell Advocacy Inc, and a member of the Board of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT). Ngaire serves on the TGA Advisory Committee on Biologicals and the MCRI Institutional Biosafety Committee.

Ngaire has devoted her career to providing improved therapies for the treatment of cancer, leukaemia and other disorders, and is passionate about the therapeutic application of cellular therapies.

Top Publications

  • Massa, S, Johnson, P, Villacres, M, Deeming, A, Ramsay, J, Klamer, G, Tiedemann, K, Morgan, C, Lindeman, R, Rodwell, R, et al. A Multi-Center Validation for the Microbiologic Screening of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Cord Blood. Stem Cells Translational Medicine 7(S1) : s16 -s16 2018
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  • Elwood, N, Abberton, K, Tian, P, Elefanty, A, Stanley, E, Youngson, J, Diviney, M, Holdsworth, R, Tiedemann, K, Little, M. 370 Expanding cellular therapies through provision of A cord blood—derived ipsc haplobank. Cytotherapy 20(5) : e2 2018
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  • Momirovski, D, Tian, P, Bell, K, Pepe, S, Elwood, N. 366 Characterisation of SIRPα+ cells in umbilical cord blood. Cytotherapy 20(5) : s122 2018
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  • Rodwell, R, Elwood, N, Youngson, J, Montague, A, Johnson, P, Villacres, M, Massa, S, Ramsay, J, Klamer, G, Deeming, A, et al. 227 Development and implementation of a multi-centre validation master plan for a new cord blood manufacturing process for the Australian AusCord public cord blood banks using a quality by design life-cycle approach. Cytotherapy 20(5) : s80 2018
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  • Elwood, NJ. Cord Blood Donor Qualification. 87 -96 2018
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