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

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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

  • Sathe, P, Pang, SHM, Delconte, R, Elwood, N, Huntington, ND. Identification of Novel Human NK Cell Progenitor Subsets.. Int J Mol Sci 18(12) : 2017
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  • Elwood, N, Abberton, K, Holdsworth, R, Diviney, M, Tiedemann, K, Youngson, J, Leslie, S. 104 Establishment of an Australian cord blood-derived iPSC haplobank for clinical use. Cytotherapy 19(5) : s75 2017
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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. 196 Alignment of public cord blood banking operations—the AusCord experience. Cytotherapy 19(5) : s125 2017
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  • Deeming, A, Ramsay, J, Klamer, G, Elwood, N, Youngson, J, Massa, S, Johnson, P, Villacres, M, Rodwell, R. 134 Implementation of a program for the external audit of contracted suppliers by AusCord—The Australian Public Cord Blood Collection and Banking Network. Cytotherapy 19(5) : s85 2017
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  • Trickett, A, Lindeman, R, Li, L, Youngson, J, Elwood, N. 126 Effect of cryopreservation methodology on neutrophil and platelet engraftment in unrelated donor cord blood transplantation. Cytotherapy 19(5) : s82 -s83 2017
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