Andrew Pask

Professor Andrew John Pask is an epigeneticist and head of the Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research Laboratory at the School of BioSciences in the University of Melbourne. He is known for his work on the project to resurrect the extinct thylacine, a marsupial colloquially known as the "Tasmanian tiger".
Pask graduated with a PhD from La Trobe University in 1999, for his thesis "The evolution of genes in the sex determining pathway".
In August 2025, Pask joined Colossal Biosciences as Chief Biology Officer to lead the company's growing research effort in Australia.