Anestis Tsakiridis is a stem cell/developmental biologist. His research aims to understand the key events that drive human embryonic development and, in turn, use this knowledge to decipher the causes of congenital birth defects/childhood cancers as well as develop novel effective therapies against them.
Anestis did his PhD in the University of Edinburgh followed by postdoctoral training also in Edinburgh, first lab in the Institute for Stem Cell Research and then the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine. In 2016 he started, as a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, his own independent group in the Centre for Stem Cell Biology in the University of Sheffield, where he is currently based.