Professor Peter Andrews

Department of Biomedical Science
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN
United Kingdom

• Arthur Jackson Professor of Biomedical Science
• Room: E Floor Alfred Denny building
• Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 4173

email : p.w.andrews@sheffield.ac.uk

Research interests

The Biology of human Embryonic Stem Cells and their Malignant counterparts from Teratocarcinomas.

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Career history

Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield

• Arthur Jackson Professor of Biomedical Science: 1992 - present
• Chairman of Department 1995-2003

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia

• Associate Professor: 1991 - 1992
• Assistant Professor: 1983 - 1990
• Research Associate: 1980 - 1982
• Research Investigator: 1978 - 1979

Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York

• Research Fellow: 1976 - 1978

Institut Pasteur, Paris

• Research Fellow: 1974 - 1975

Activities and distinctions

• Chairman, Department of Biomedical Science, 1995 -2003
• Co-founder and Director, Axordia Ltd., A University Spin-out Company
• Invited member of ad hoc committees and discussion groups of the MRC to discuss national stem cell strategy, 2002 -2000
• Member UK Stem Cell Bank User Liaison Committee 2003 – present.
• Member, UK Stem Cell Bank Management Committee 2003 - present
• Co-ordinator of the International Human Embryonic Stem Cell Characterisation Group for the International Stem Cell Forum 2003 - present
• Co-organiser of the first UK Human ES cell Training Course (co-sponsored by the MRC, BBSRC, DoH and WUN), June 2003)
• Chairman, Finnish Academy Stem Cell Grants Panel, Sept 2004
• Member, YCR Scientific Advisory Committee, from April 2004
• Member, MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board, from April 2005

Current funding

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• International Stem Cell Initiative
• UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI)
• Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR)

Recent publications

The International Stem Cell Initiative, Amps K, Andrews PW, et al.
Screening ethnically diverse human embryonic stem cells identifies a chromosome 20 minimal amplicon conferring growth advantage.
Nat Biotechnol. 2011 29:1132-1144.

Sood A, Salih S, Roh D, Lacharme-Lora L, Parry M, Hardiman B, Keehan R, Grummer R, Winterhager E, Gokhale PJ, Andrews PW, Abbott C, Forbes K, Westwood M, Aplin JD, Ingham E, Papageorgiou I, Berry M, Liu J, Dick AD, Garland RJ, Williams N, Singh R, Simon AK, Lewis M, Ham J, Roger L, Baird DM, Crompton LA, Caldwell MA, Swalwell H, Birch-Machin M, Lopez-Castejon G, Randall A, Lin H, Suleiman MS, Evans WH, Newson R, Case CP.
Signalling of DNA damage and cytokines across cell barriers exposed to nanoparticles depends on barrier thickness.
Nat Nanotechnol. 2011 6:824-33.

Barbaric I, Jones M, Buchner K, Baker D, Andrews PW, Moore HD.
Pinacidil enhances survival of cryopreserved human embryonic stem cells.
Cryobiology. 2011 63:298-305.

Andrews PW.
Toward safer regenerative medicine.
Nat Biotechnol. 2011 29:803-5. No abstract available.

Tonge PD, Shigeta M, Schroeder T, Andrews PW.
Functionally defined substates within the human embryonic stem cell compartment.
Stem Cell Res. 2011 7:145-53.

Fazeli A, Liew CG, Matin MM, Elliott S, Jeanmeure LF, Wright PC, Moore H, Andrews PW.
Altered patterns of differentiation in karyotypically abnormal human embryonic stem cells.
Int J Dev Biol. 2011 55:175-80.

Wright A, Andrews N, Bardsley K, Nielsen JE, Avery K, Pewsey E, Jones M, Harley D, Nielsen AR, Moore H, Gokhale P, Rajpert-De Meyts E, Andrews PW, Walsh J, Harrison NJ.
Mapping the stem cell state: eight novel human embryonic stem and embryonal carcinoma cell antibodies.
Int J Androl. 2011 34: e175-87;

Goldring CE, Duffy PA, Benvenisty N, Andrews PW, Ben-David U, Eakins R, French N, Hanley NA, Kelly L, Kitteringham NR, Kurth J, Ladenheim D, Laverty H, McBlane J, Narayanan G, Patel S, Reinhardt J, Rossi A, Sharpe M, Park BK.
Assessing the safety of stem cell therapeutics.
Cell Stem Cell. 2011 8:618-28. Review.

Barbaric I, Jones M, Harley DJ, Gokhale PJ, Andrews PW.
High-content screening for chemical modulators of embryonal carcinoma cell differentiation and survival.
J Biomol Screen. 2011 16:603-17.