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Australia's leading experts in bioengineering, nanotechnology, stem cell biology, advanced molecular analysis and clinical research from universities and research institutes around the country are involved in the Stem Cells Australia initiative.

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Professor Melissa Little Program Leader and Chief Investigator

Research focus: Molecular basis of kidney development and generation of stem cells for kidney rebuilding or repair in kidney diseases
Professor Christine Wells Deputy Program Leader and Chief Investigator

Research focus: Computational and systems biology approaches to determining cell identity - tissue macrophages, stem cells, pluripotent stem cells and adult progenitor cells
Associate Professor Helen Abud Chief Investigator

Research focus: Stem cells in intestinal disease and bowel cancer
Dr Guy Barry Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Using human stem cells to understand and treat psychiatric disease and cancer
Professor Perry Bartlett Chief Investigator

Research focus: Activation of endogenous brain stem cells to repair the aged, damaged or diseased central nervous system
Dr Jessica Bell Associate Investigator

Research focus: Legal and governance issues from large-scale research infrastructures such as biobanks and data-sharing networks
Professor James Bourne Chief Investigator

Research focus: Development, maturation and repair of the cerebral cortex in primates
Associate Professor James Chong Chief Investigator

Research focus: Novel methods to achieve heart regeneration
Professor John Christodoulou Chief Investigator

Research focus: Diagnosis and management of children with inborn errors of metabolism
Professor Justin Cooper-White Chief Investigator

Research focus: Elucidation of microenvironmental cues that regulate stem cell behaviours and translation of these insights into biomaterial scaffolds and microdevices to direct stem cell differentiation
Professor Peter Currie Chief Investigator

Research focus: Muscle development and evolution
Dr Partha Das Associate Investigator

Research focus: Transcription factors and epigenetic regulators of gene expression programs in stem cells and differentiated cells and in cancers and neurodegenerative disorders
Professor Nick Di Girolamo Chief Investigator

Research focus: Restoring sight in patients with severe corneal disease using stem cells
Associate Professor Mirella Dottori Chief Investigator

Research focus: Using neural stem cells to generate neuronal cell types - applications in Parkinson's disease, Friedreich's ataxia, Hirschsprung's disease, peripheral neuropathies and hearing loss
Professor Andrew Elefanty Partner Investigator

Research focus: Regulation of human pluripotent stem cell differentiation to mesendodermal precursors and then to mesodermal lineages, as exemplified by blood and endothelium
Dr David Elliott Partner Investigator

Research focus: Use of pluripotent stem cells generated from adult cells to study human heart development and disease
Associate Professor Ron Firestein Affiliate Investigator

Research focus:Use of patient derived and IPSC-derived organoids for modelling cancer and identifying new therapies using orthogonal drug and genetic/CRISPR screens
Professor Alistair Forrest Chief Investigator

Research focus: Transcriptional networks defining mammalian cellular states, especially cancer
Dr Irene Gallego Romero Associate Investigator

Research focus: Induced pluripotent stem cells and functional genomics to address questions about the mechanisms of evolutionary adaptation in humans
Professor David Gardner Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Improvements of techniques associated with reproductive biology through basic research at the cellular level
Professor Caroline Gargett Affiliate Investigator

Research focus:Endometrial Stem/Progenitor cells in gynaecological disease, including a tissue engineering project using tissue engineering principles for treating pelvic organ prolapse
Professor Robert Graham Chief Investigator

Research focus: Biology of postnatal heart development, particularly cardiomyocytes, as a prelude to initiating meaningful heart muscle regeneration in the injured adult or mal-developed infant heart
Professor Peter Gray Chief Investigator

Research focus: Bioengineering mammalian cell protein expression and stem cell-based bioprocessor systems
Professor Richard Harvey Chief Investigator

Research focus: Cellular, molecular, genetic and epigenetic aspects of the function and regeneration of the mammalian heart, including cardiac stem cells and stromal cells in the adult heart and how they might be targeted therapeutically for heart regeneration.
Dr John Haynes Chief Investigator

Research focus: Stem cell-based models of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases - embryonic stem cell reporter lines and enrichment of neural phenotypes
Professor Alex Hewitt Chief Investigator

Research focus: Molecular mechanisms in eye disease
Professor Doug Hilton Chief Investigator

Research focus: Genes and molecular pathways involved in development and function of blood cells
Dr Robin Hobbs Associate Investigator

Research focus: Molecular mechanisms underlying stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, using testis germline stem/progenitor cells
Dr Peter Houweling Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Skeletal Muscle Disease
Dr James Hudson Affiliate Investigator

Research focus:Organoid research specifically for cardiac diseases
Dr Harald Janovjak Chief Investigator

Research focus: Synthetic physiology - understanding and manipulating cell signalling and cell behaviour selectively in tissues affected by degeneration, including type 1 diabetes and Parkinson's disease
Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri Chief Investigator

Research focus: Fundamental mechanisms that drive renewal of neurons in adult brain
Dr Gerard Kaiko Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Lung and intestinal epithelial stem cells
Professor Jane Kaye Associate Investigator

Research focus: Relationships between law, ethics and the emerging technologies in health
Dr Kazu Kikuchi Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Understanding the mechanisms of heart regeneration
Professor Trevor Kilpatrick Chief Investigator

Research focus: Aetiology, pathogenesis and treatemnt of multiple sclerosis
Dr Jason Kovacic Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Investigating new and game-changing discoveries related to cardiovascular disease and to blockages of the heart arteries (coronary artery disease)
Associate Professor Andrew Laslett Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Human pluripotent stem cell biology research
Dr Kim-Anh Le Cao Associate Investigator

Research focus: Mathematical and statistical modelling of diverse and large biological data-sets to gain new insights into molecular mechanisms regulating biological processes
Dr Heather Lee Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Epigenetic heterogeneity and dynamics in stem cells and cancer
Associate Professor Rebecca Lim Affiliate Investigator

Research focus:Cell and gene therapies including CAR-T, clinical translation of cellular therapies including scalable manufacturing technologies, regulatory compliance and process development
Professor Ryan Lister Chief Investigator

Research focus: Elucidating how the epigenome is established and dynamically modified, how it affects cellular readout of underlying genetic information, and molecular tools for editing the epigenome
Associate Professor Jessica Mar Chief Investigator

Research focus: Development of bioinformatics and statistical methods to understand how variability of gene expression contributes to regulation of the transcriptome and human disease
Professor Christophe Marcelle Chief Investigator

Research focus: Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating myogenic differentiation, growth and repair - towards treatment of muscular dystrophy
Dr Mikael Martino Chief Investigator

Research focus: Research in immunology, stem cells, and bioengineering, to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms governing tissue repair and regeneration and to engineer novel regenerative strategies
Dr Courtney McDonald Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Clinical translation of umbilical cord blood stem cells and neural stem cells for treatment of perinatal brain injury and other neurological conditions
Dr Tobias Merson Chief Investigator

Research focus: Cellular and molecular interactions between neurons and myelin-forming oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system, towards developing strategies to promote myelin repair in diseases such as multiple sclerosis
Associate Professor Megan Munsie Chief Investigator

Research focus: To improve understanding of legal, ethical, social and policy issues associated with stem cell science and regenerative medicine
Dr Shalin Naik Partner Investigator

Research focus: Single cell systems biology - how cells of the immune system are formed from blood stem cells
Dr Bryony Nayagam Associate Investigator

Research focus: Development of regenerative therapies for hearing loss
Professor Lars Nielsen Chief Investigator

Research focus: Systems and synthetic biology to develop sustainable bioprocesses - including tuissue engineering to generate microtissues for drug screening and blood cells for transfusion
Professor Susie Nilsson Partner Investigator

Research focus: Haemopoiesis and the changes and their effects in haemopoietic disease
Dr Robert Nordon Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Mammalian cell bioreactors for clinical therapies
Dr Michael O'Connor Chief Investigator

Research focus: Use of human pluripotent stem cells to understand lens and cataract development
Associate Professor Alicia Oshlack Partner Investigator

Research focus: Bioinformatic analysis of gene expression, epigenetics, clinical sequencing and cancer genomics
Dr Nathan Palpant Chief Investigator

Research focus: Mechanisms underlying mesoderm cell lineage decisions using human pluripotent stem cells, genomics, genome engineering, and bioengineering
Associate Professor Clare Parish Partner Investigator

Research focus: Directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells and their appplications in cell-replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and stroke
Professor Alice Pebay Chief Investigator

Research focus: Stem cells for modelling and correcting blinding diseases
Professor Alan Petersen Associate Investigator

Research focus: Community consultation over the development and use of new technologies
Professor Steve Petrou Chief Investigator

Research focus: Pathology of ion channel disorders, in particular epilepsy, using in vitro and in vivo models to reveal opportunities for developing novel therapies
Professor Jose Polo Chief Investigator

Research focus: Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity and cell fate, especially pluripotency and reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and other mature cell types.
Associate Professor Enzo Porrello Chief Investigator

Research focus: Molecular mechanisms that guide heart development and regeneration
Professor Colin Pouton Chief Investigator

Research focus: Cell and molecular biological models in mechanistic investigations of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases, leading to improved models for drug discovery
Associate Professor Joseph Powell Associate Investigator

Research focus: Use of large-scale genomic data to investigate how DNA sequence variants contribute to human disease
Dr Mirana Ramialison Associate Investigator

Research focus: Bioinformatic analysis of how gene regulatory networks drive embryonic development and contribute to congenital heart disease
Dr Alberto Rosello-Diez Associate Investigator

Research focus: Local and systemic mechanisms that regulate bone growth in limbs and communication between bone and the rest of the body
Professor Nadia Rosenthal Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Using mammalian genetics to explore the embryonic development of heart and skeletal muscle and the regeneration of adult tissues.
Professor Alan Rowan Associate Investigator

Research focus: Interaction of cells with nanostructured materials and surfaces
Dr James Ryall Associate Investigator

Research focus: Skeletal muscle stem cells and regeneration
Professor Ed Stanley Partner Investigator

Research focus: Genetic manipulation of pluripotent stem cells, analysis of stem cell-derived beta cells, making blood cells and stem cell models of human disease
Professor Alastair Stewart Associate Investigator

Research focus: Mechanisms in inflammation and fibrosis in respiratory disease - mechanopharmacology in drug discovery and ultra-high content screening
Dr Claire Tanner Associate Investigator

Research focus: Sociology of science, the body and health
Associate Professor Pradeep Tanwar Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Reproductive tract stem cells
Dr Samir Taoudi Partner Investigator

Research focus: Understanding how blood stem cells are produced and how their behaviours are controlled
Dr Lachlan Thompson Partner Investigator

Research focus: Repair of the damaged brain with stem cells - transplantation and neurogenesis in Parkinson's disease, stroke and motor neuron disease
Professor Stefan Thor Associate Investigator

Research focus: Control of proliferation and cell fate of neural progenitors
Professor David Thorburn Partner Investigator

Research focus: Inherited metabolic disorders, particularly those affecting mitochondrial energy generation
Associate Professor Claudia Vickers Associate Investigator

Research focus: Synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology - microbial metabolic engineering
Professor Jane Visvader Affiliate Investigator

Research focus: Molecular regulators of normal breast development and cancer
Professor Brandon Wainwright Associate Investigator

Research focus: Genes, cell signalling, stem cells and cancer (skin, brain)
Professor Stephanie Watson Chief Investigator

Research focus: Developing innovative solutions to restore sight in corneal disorders
Associate Professor Anthony White Affiliate Investigator

Research focus:Development of 3D cell models of human neurons and glia to further our understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
Professor Ernst Wolvetang Chief Investigator

Research focus: Using human induced pluripotent stem cells to model brain and ageing diseases, to perform functional genomics and develop novel regenerative medicine approaches

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