Associate Professor David Elliott
A/Prof David Elliott leads the Heart Disease Group at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and he is a principal investigator of the Novo Nordisk Foundation for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW). David co-directs, with A/Prof Rachel Conyers, the Australian Cardio-Oncology Registry (ACOR), a national program targeted at improving long-term cardiac health outcomes for childhood cancer survivors. The focus of A/Prof Elliott’s laboratory is to develop pluripotent stem cell-based models of heart disease and use these models to find new therapies for heart disease. Throughout his career A/Prof Elliott has made important contributions to understanding the molecular control of heart muscle development, function and disease.
A/Prof David Elliott completed his PhD on the genetics of heart development at The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. He continued to post-doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge studying the nervous system in the fruit fly at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute. A/Prof Elliott began using human pluripotent stem cells in a second post-doc with Profs. Andrew Elefanty and Ed Stanley at Monash University where he generated key stem cell lines and identified the first cardiac lineage cell surface markers.