
Andrew Laslett
CSIRO Manufacturing, Victoria, Australia
Associate Professor Andrew Laslett is a Research Team Leader with the CSIRO (Australia), where he leads a human pluripotent stem cell biology research team. He also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position with the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University. Since 2001, Andrew and his laboratory have focused on elucidating the complex biology of human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells. His laboratory is currently focused on exploiting the basic biology of these cell types to create novel cell lines and tools that enhance human pluripotent cell research translation. He obtained his BSc (Hons) and PhD (1996) from Monash University prior to undertaking postdoctoral positions in both Hong Kong and Philadelphia, USA.