Affiliation: University of Manchester

Kerri Smith is a final year PhD student at the University of Manchester, UK, funded by the British Heart Foundation. She works under Dr Gina Galli in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, researching the effects of developmental hypoxia on cardiac mitochondria. Specifically, Kerri is researching the developmental programming of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore, a key driver of ischemia-reperfusion injury. She started her PhD program in 2019, after completing a biochemistry degree at the University of Bath, UK, in 2018.