Rate My Professor Ed Stanley

Professor Ed Stanley is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He is Group Leader of the Immune Development Laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where he also serves as Deputy Theme Director of Stem Cell Medicine and as Deputy Director of the Melbourne node of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW.

Professor Stanley completed his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne in association with the Ludwig Institute. He undertook postdoctoral training as a C.J. Martin Fellow in the laboratory of Professor Peter Rigby at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, followed by work at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. He joined Monash University in 2002 to lead aspects of embryonic stem cell differentiation research and relocated his laboratory to the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in 2012. His research utilises human pluripotent stem cells to study human immunity and autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, with long-standing collaborations on haematopoietic, endocrine and immune development. He has contributed to the development of technologies for genetic modification of pluripotent stem cell lines, differentiation platforms and cell culture formulations.

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