Andrew is a combined experimental and computational biologist interested in embryonic development and complex human diseases. Originally from the UK, where he earned his PhD from the University of Anglia in 2004, Andrew has been in Asia for nearly two decades. First, in Singapore, 2004-2010, then moving to Osaka in Japan, 2010-2013, to study the immune system. In 2013, he came to China, first to the GIBH in Guangzhou, before taking up a faculty position at SUSTech in 2016. To date, he has published 85 manuscripts, including leading studies in Nature Cell Biology, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Communications, and PLOS Biology.