Andrew Elefanty received his M.B.B.S from Monash University and completed his clinical training as a physician at Prince Henry's Hospital, specializing in hematology/oncology. His PhD studies, conducted in the laboratory of Prof Suzanne Cory and Prof Jerry Adams, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), focused on experimental hematology and leukaemogenesis. Following completion of his PhD, the awarding of a Neil Hamilton Fairley fellowship allowed Andrew to take up a post doctoral training position at the National Institute of Medical Research in the UK, where he studied the transcriptional regulation of blood cell development. This line of investigation was continued upon his return to WEHI in 1996. In 2001, he and collaborator, Ed Stanley, set up the Embryonic stem cell differentiation laboratory at Monash University. In 2012, Andrew relocated to the MCRI where he now heads the Blood Cell Development and Disease Laboratory.