Elisa Laurenti is a research group leader at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Department of Haematology of the University of Cambridge. She is currently a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow. In 2021, she received the International Society for Experimental Hematology Janet Rowley Award, which recognises outstanding early career principal investigators and their contributions to the field of haematology. The Laurenti laboratory aims to understand blood formation throughout a human lifetime. The lab studies human HSC and progenitor cells using single cell biology techniques:  functional single cell assays and single cell -omics technologies. The lab is currently investigating the unique molecular and functional properties of human HSC and progenitors during foetal life, throughout adulthood across sites of haematopoiesis as well as during ageing. Another area of interest is the study of HSCs’ cellular and molecular responses to stress, with the goal to improve HSC ex vivo expansion and gene therapy protocols.
Lab Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/laurenti