Dr David Elliott
research officer
Cell Biology
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr David Elliott completed his PhD at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, performing a structure/function analysis of Nkx2-5, a key regulator of cardiogenesis. He identified and characterised a novel, evolutionarily conserved tyrosine rich transactivation domain. For his postdoctorate Dr Elliott worked at The Gurdon Institute at Cambridge University investigating the role of an E3 ubiquitin ligase, the anaphase-promoting complex, in neural cell function and fate in Drosophila. In 2007 he joined the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories with Professor Andrew Elefanty and Ed Stanley working on the generation of purified populations of human heart cells from the in vitro differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). In late 2012 he established the Cardiac Development Laboratory at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute continuing to work on differentiating hESCs as a model of human heart development.
Research Interest
cardiac disease
