Ellis Smith graduated in 2018 from the University of Glasgow, with a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. She is currently pursuing a 4-year PhD in microfluidics, investigating the mechanisms causing abnormal proliferation of vascular cells and the cell sub-populations involved. The aim of her project is to develop a new methodology to continuously track the functional changes that individual vascular cells undergo in response to various stimuli and drug treatments.

• A microfluidic approach to investigating vascular cell fate at the single-cell level