Tirtha Laschk (Lester)

Tirtha is a fully qualified Heart Meditation Facilitator, having completed the 100 hour training with the Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation. Originally from Edinburgh, he now lives in Falkland, Fife where he enjoys his daily walk in the local woods with his dog and his weekly game of chess, in the local pub.

Tirtha started his professional career in 1982, as a laboratory scientist at the South African Institute of Medical Research (SAIMR), in Johannesburg. The SAIMR was then an affiliate to the multiracial University of Witwatersrand, where he registered part time for an MSc in human genetics. Tirtha returned to the UK in 1988 to do a PhD in hereditary blindness at Newcastle University. In 1991 he returned to his home town of Edinburgh to work as a postdoctoral researcher; first at the Western General hospital and latterly at the Roslin Institute. In the year 2000 he took up a lectureship in Bio-medical Sciences, at Abertay University, Dundee. In 2019 he took early retirement from lecturing and co-founded “Fertility Genomics” with an Abertay colleague. Since “retirement” Tirtha has also been annually supervising MSc summer research projects at Dundee Universities, Reproductive Medicine Department, in Ninewells Hospital